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Kennedy School alum Robert B. Zoellick, now the deputy secretary of state, returned to his old stomping grounds last night and defended the Bush administration’s stance on a controversial seaport deal at an Institute of Politics forum. Zoellick’s remarks came amid a nationwide uproar over a transaction that would leave several key U.S. port terminals—including New Orleans and Newark, N.J.—in the hands of a Dubai state-owned firm. The Dubai firm, DP World, bid $6.8 billion to buy the British company that currently operates the ports...
...marks.And while more than 85 percent of the faculty and graduate students support the change in grading policy according to a 2002 grade inflation survey, a recent Brown Daily Herald poll found that 70 percent of Brown undergraduates oppose the change.The Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is hosting a forum this afternoon in an effort to voice student opinion before the faculty votes to amend the grading system.Brown’s current curriculum, implemented in 1969, does not have distribution requirements and allows students to take courses pass/fail or with whole-letter grades.Brown’s College Curriculum...
...faculty led to his resignation, University President Lawrence H. Summers was on his academic home turf last night, moderating fellow star economists N. Gregory Mankiw and Gene Sperling in a debate on the “Challenges to American Prosperity” at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. The campus buzzed with excitement before the event, with a Harvard Democrats e-mail advertisement billing the event as an “opportunity to see the world’s greatest economists go at it.” Both of the “heavy hitters...
...penchant for explaining things very well, also for throwing in humor and interesting examples,” says Alexander N. Harris ‘08, who took Economics 1017, is currently enrolled in Economics 1471, and also asked Miron to sponsor the Harvard Libertarian Forum, of which Harris is the president...
...Kirby, who attended last night’s forum, said that while it was the “Faculty’s responsibility” to make decisions on the curricular review, it should do so based on “the advice of students as well...