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Shortly after his resignation, Rose said he became increasingly concerned that Harvard may have had ethically questionable ties to Enron, which went bankrupt in late 2001. Herbert S. Winokur ’65 served both on the secretive Harvard Corporation and on Enron’s board of directors, a dual commitment that Rose said he found disconcerting. He also found ethically troubling Harvard’s 49 percent ownership interest in former Enron affiliate Cook Inlet Energy Supply—which he said made substantial profits from the debilitating California energy crisis...
...phone interview, Winokur said that legal investigations have since concluded that Harvard had no improper relationship with Enron...
...president of the Urban Institute, a non-profit think tank in the nation’s capital. Reischauer speaks Summers’ figures-based language, and his appointment in 2002—as a replacement for the short-lived Enron director Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65—made him the third economist to join the board in less than two years...
...first-choice college, Wellesley, cared little about her personal relationship with Christ. At the time, Wellesley “had a very stringent Jewish quota,” Kumin recalled—and in Wellesley’s eyes, however fond she may have been of Jesus, Maxine Winokur was still a Jew. She was rejected...
...Kumin was born Maxine Winokur in 1925, the fourth child—and only daughter—of a South Philadelphia pawnbroker. The family lived in suburban Germantown; the hillside location of the Winokur family home was later immortalized in Kumin’s “Halfway,” the title poem of her 1961 anthology...