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Jeffrey A. Zucker ’86 is expected to be named the Chairman and Chief Executive of NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric and the world??s fifth-largest media company, according to inside sources who spoke to the Los Angeles Times. Zucker will replace Robert C. Wright, the NBC chairman who has occupied the position for 21 years. Zucker has been the chief executive of the NBC Universal Television Group since December 2005. He was responsible for all programming across the conglomerate’s extensive television properties, which include the NBC network as well...
...initiative. It demonstrates that such initiatives are at the top of the priority list of the upper echelons of Harvard’s—a development that has grabbed the attention of top scientists worldwide and that will no doubt attract a fresh crop of the world??s greatest minds to Cambridge.The most promising aspect of the Corporation’s initiative is the role it has given HUSEC. By creating a University-wide standing committee, rather than merely providing directionless money, the Corporation is introducing a permanent administrative structure to oversee the interdisciplinary initiative...
...chief of the world??s largest oil company predicted an increasing dependence on fossil fuels despite the emergence of alternative energy sources in a talk yesterday sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment. At the standing-room only event, Abdallah S. Jum’ah, the president and CEO of oil producer Saudi Aramco, attributed this growing demand for oil to the rising global population and better living standards in the developing world. “Over the next several decades, we must substantially increase the amount of energy available to consumers around the world...
...problems for study.” The authenticity of Pollock’s paintings has more than scholarly significance. An undisputed painting by the famed American abstract expressionist, “No. 5, 1948,” recently sold for $140 million, making it the world??s most expensive masterpiece. The Harvard investigation was a collaboration between Harry Cooper, a curator of modern art at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum; Narayan Khandekar, a senior conservation scientist at the Straus Center for Conservation, an arm of the Harvard museums; and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger...
...Joshua D. Smith ’08 did precisely that. A native of Plant City, Florida—the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World??Smith left home with his conservative credentials intact, and returned having been elected co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA). But the e-mails preaching the right-wing gospel have kept on coming...