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Rupp served as president of Rice University from 1985-1993, before assuming his current post at Columbia. At Rice, he is credited with helping to triple applications and more than doubling the endowment...
Before going to Rice, Rupp was the O'Brian professor of divinity and dean of the Harvard Divinity School. He received a doctorate in education from Harvard...
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER Condi Rice Guru...
...Balia," she replies. Her son's name? "Balia." And her husband's? "Balia." He is apparently somewhere in the rann foraging for food while she seeks charity by the highway. The pickings are slim. In 15 days, she has scored two olive-green blankets and a small bag of rice and lentils from a passing aid convoy. Her husband has come up with some onions. I offer to drive the family to a relief camp near town, where they would get food and shelter. Balia refuses, pointing to a small pile of stones that used to be her home. What...
...final glimpse into Gujarat's wounded psyche on my last night at Girishbhai's camp. Most of the people?mainly slum dwellers?seem in good spirits. Women gossip and giggle as they help the volunteers cook up a fresh batch of khichdi, a nutritious mixture of rice and lentils. The men are kept in splits by a barber's risqu? jokes. "Our homes were not worth much, so it will be easy to rebuild them," says 60-year-old Haji Aftab. "We feel sorry for the rich and the middle-class folks, who lost expensive houses." The resident chatterbox Malati...