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...Derek C. Bok, incoming interim president, said at the memorial service for the six-foot-eight-inch economist last Wednesday that Harvard “will never be quite the same” without...
...riding program, through which Greenhouse went to a stable in a suburb of Boston every Wednesday afternoon for three years. “I never got any good at it, and I never got over my fear of horses,” Greenhouse says.Greenhouse also once had a five-foot-long pet iguana named Madonna.“Linda is just a very nice, gentle person. It belies a very tough mind,” Jones says. “She’ll ask tough questions and cut to the core of things. In addition to speaking at Class...
...sciences is essential to the maintenance of Harvard’s academic preeminence. This philosophy has both anchored Harvard’s presence in Allston and propelled development forward thus far.Among the first buildings set for the University’s 241 acres is a massive 500,000 square foot science complex to be designed by Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner—a Stuttgart-based architectural firm with environmentally-friendly credentials—which will house the Stem Cell Institute and the newly created Harvard Institute for Biological Engineering.“[The current plan] definitely reflects [Summers?...
...wrong thing to do in that situation. It was too risky, too exposing. With everything on the line, a simple error would mean that it was all over.But it worked.As Benjamin Ungar lunged forward, he felt the point of his weapon on Denis Tolkachev’s foot. Even before the light came on to indicate the touch, the Harvard epee fencer knew. And then he turned around and yelled—yelled as loud as he could for as long as he could.He had done it. He had won the NCAA individual men’s gold.The foot touch...
...most people have ever known.” Bok described former professor, author and ambassador as “the paprika in our stew” at Harvard, “adding a truly distinctive and memorable quality.” The incoming interim President said of the six-foot-eight professor, “He casts a long shadow, both literally and figuratively, and Harvard without him will never be quite the same.” Journalists William F. Buckley Jr. and Gloria Steinem, Galbraith’s biographer Richard Parker, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor Amartya...