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Unfortunately, this is far from the only instance in which Harvard’s decision-makers have acted unethically with no opportunity for community supervision. Just over six months ago, Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur resigned from the Harvard Corporation—the self-selecting secretive seven-member body with ultimate say over all of Harvard’s actions—because of his close ties to Enron. At the same time as he was chairing Enron’s finance committee as it suspended ethical standard after ethical standard, he was, ironically, also chairing...
...past few months, both Winokur and Stone have been replaced on the Harvard Corporation The other six met in secret and handpicked a new recruit to initiate into their club for each member they had lost—just as they have been doing for more than 350 years. We can hope the new corporation members will be more ethical than those they are replacing, but hope is a slim hook on which to hang the $17 billion that is left in the Harvard endowment. The key question for the Harvard community to consider now is how we can make...
...start, Tracy (Marissa Jaret Winokur) is trapped at home, watching "The Corky Collins Show" with her friend Penny Pingleton (Kerry Butler). Fat Mama Edna (Fierstein) wants to be alone in her misery; she growls to Penny, "Go tell your mother she wants you." Edna is married to medium-size Wilbur (Dick Latessa), who runs the local joke shop; his ambition is to "keep the air from leaking out of my sofa-size Whoopee Cushion." The goal Edna mentions has the same working-class practicality about it: she wants to "find a way to get blood out of car upholstery...
...Ronettes. (Martin Scorsese recognized the power of this opening: he used it at the start of "Mean Streets.") A few bars later, the first syllables uttered in the show - a cutting "Wuh. Uh. Oh." for the song "Good Morning Baltimore" - cue the audience to the tone and intent. Winokur, with a voice that shouts High School of the Performing Arts in its "Fame" years, gives the "Oh" that diphthong that identifies anyone from Baltimore (or from Philadelphia, South Jersey or Delaware; it's a widespread contagion from which many of us are not cured...
Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute in Washington and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, fills the Harvard Corporation seat left vacant six months ago when Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 resigned as his membership on Enron’s board of directors came under scrutiny...