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Take Robert Skiff, co-founder of the Vermont Commons School, where he is an admissions counselor and the social sciences chair. In his downtime - if the climate's right - he is an avid currency trader. "I'm not very active right now," says Skiff from his home in northern Vermont. "You have to be willing to walk away if your models aren't going to fit," and he now feels the environment is too unstable...
...federal judge ruled against Facebook Inc. on Friday, denying two emergency motions to force 02138 magazine to take down documents regarding Mark E. Zuckerberg, the company’s founder. The documents—which included Zuckerberg’s Harvard College application, his personal diary, and an e-mail he wrote to the College’s Administrative Board—are evidence in an ongoing court battle between Facebook and ConnectU, a social networking site founded by Harvard students who employed Zuckerberg before he went on to found Facebook. The ConnectU founders allege that Zuckerberg, formerly...
...partner and the secretary and treasurer of the Gleitsman Foundation, said that the idea for the gift was born over years of cooperation with the Kennedy School, which often hosted the winners of the Gleitsman awards. The 2007 International Activist Award will be presented to Sakena Yacoobi, founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning, at the Kennedy School tomorrow. “The agreement was signed back in 1996,” Rosché said, adding that it came out of a close relationship with Albert Carnesale, who served as dean of the Kennedy School from 1991 to 1995. Rosch?...
...plan the campaign for Slow Food Harvard, a new group that aims to promote sustainable eating habits among students.“It’s a cause that people come at from the environmental side, from a gourmet side, from a labor side,” said founder Francesca T. Gilberti ’10, who is also a Crimson magazine editor. “It’s all-inclusive.”LOCAVORES UNITEPopularized as the “locavore” movement, the trend of buying local has swept the nation over the past several years...
...Syrians to join the talks in a show of support for the weak Palestinian leadership. Still, the summit, which set the goal of creating a Palestinian state at peace with Israel by the end of 2008, was a risk. If talks fail, says George Salem, a co-founder of the Arab American Institute, "then the extremists will attempt to once again take control. The stakes are quite high...