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...David Korn ’54, a former dean of Stanford University School of Medicine, will become Harvard’s first vice provost for research this fall, the University announced yesterday...
...Korn will focus on developing and standardizing policies regarding scientific research across the University’s schools in an effort “to ease practical impediments to interdisciplinary collaboration,” once he assumes the position Nov. 15, according to yesterday’s announcement...
...Korn joins an office that has grown rapidly in recent years, as Harvard administrators have stepped up efforts to integrate activities at its traditionally disconnected schools...
...concerts, say, or merchandise sales - weren't any of the label's business. But now, with album sales plummeting, music companies are chasing juicier income from touring and branded goods. Part of that revenue stream figures in Live Nation's $120 million deal with Madonna. Likewise, U.S. rock group Korn now carves up its nonmusic income with EMI; Interscope Records, a U.S. label owned by Universal Music, even gets a cut from a Las Vegas nightclub endorsed by the Pussycat Dolls. The appeal for artists? Labels can pledge greater, longer-term support - and big, upfront payments in many cases...
...plays the Thaksin card, the rival Democrats point to their record in ruling Thailand after two previous crises: the bloody military crackdown on democracy protesters in 1992, and the regionwide economic crash five years later. "We restored political calm and laid the ground for economic recovery," says Korn Chatikavanij, the party's deputy secretary general. "Our record in government is solid." Democrats are also banking on Abhisit Vejjajiva, 43, their fresh-faced, Oxford-educated leader. Abhisit is clearly Prime Ministerial material, but remains untested in high public office and is said to lack the common touch. Samak dismisses Abhisit...