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Mark Kielburger, A.B. '00
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08/29/2006
Who: Chief Executive Director of Free the Children and Co-Founder of Leadership Today.
Quotable: “I was complaining about how I didn’t enjoy reading the newspaper in the morning because it was full of bad news. Desmond [Tutu] looked at me and said he loved reading the paper, he called the bad news ‘God’s Prayer List’. These are all the things we have to fix.”
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Jeff C. Taylor, OPM '99
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08/25/2006
Who: Founder of Monster.com and Eons, Inc.
Friends: Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst Partners, who put up the majority of the $10 million in initial financing for Eons, Inc. The venture capital firm helped start Internet giants such as Yahoo! and Google.
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William (Bill) A. Ackman, A.B. '88, M.B.A. '92
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08/21/2006
“Young people are bright people. They are not indentured to received wisdom.” That was the rationale behind the monetary support of Martin Peretz, editor of the New Republic, for Gotham Partners, a hedge fund started by two freshly minted HBS grads in 1996. Inexperience didn’t keep Bill Ackman, 26, or David Berkowitz, 31, from jumping on the hedge fund wagon, nor did it keep investors from putting up $30 million in cash.
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Alexander Vik, A.B. '78
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08/15/2006
Who: Norwegian entrepreneur who now runs Sebastian Holdings, a buyout firm.
Living Dangerously: He nearly died in 1997 after being buried in an avalanche. Two other skiers perished. Vik was not breathing and had no pulse when he was found. Emergency medical personnel managed to revive him.
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Noam Weinstein, A.B. '99
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08/07/2006
Who: Singer/Songwriter
Secret Aspirations: “When I was little I was obsessed with train conductors. In junior high school I wanted to make computer games. In high school and college I dreamed of being financially stable and well-adjusted. But this is all highly speculative.“
Politics: “I'm a registered Democrat in Massachusetts. (Cuz the ladies like it.)”
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Mieka Pauley, A.B. '02
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08/02/2006
Friends: She’s played with the likes of Eric Clapton, Wyclef Jean, and John Legend, but her most supportive fellow musicians have been Edwin McCain and Citizen Cope. She’s now on the road, opening for McCain.
Net Worth: “I was living in Cambridge, but as I’m a musician, and my boyfriend is a stand-up comic, we didn’t have the funds to stay. Talk to us in a year, maybe we’ll be in Medford.”
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Angela Ruggiero, A.B. '04
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07/07/2006
The four-time All American and three-time Olympic Medalist, fresh off helping the U.S. women's hockey team win a bronze in Torino, now brings her competitive fire to reality TV. Ruggiero is one of the contestants in this season's The Apprentice. Quoth The Donald: "We'll see if Angela can ice the competition as we take the boardroom to the West Coast." Advantage: anyone with even a modest facility for puns.
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J.S. Ewing, 89; Professor of International Marketing
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04/20/2006
J.S. Ewing was born in a small town in Alberta, Canada, where his father was a bank manager, but he traveled to more than a hundred countries before he died January 29, according to the Montreal Gazette.
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David Calkins, 57; Medical Educator
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04/18/2006
Dr. David Calkins, a Kansas City-born physician and medical educator, died last week in Concord, Massachusetts. A 1970 graduate of Princeton who went on to get degrees at Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government, Dr. Calkins worked as senior associate dean for e
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Theodore Austin, 90; Medical Educator
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04/18/2006
Theodore Austin was not a man to settle for less. According to a death notice in the New Jersey Star Ledger, he was a provost of Union County College in Cranford and Scotch Plains, N.J., and an associate dean for hospitals at University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark. A major in the U.S.
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Fred Jaquith, 85; Rhode Island Businessman
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04/17/2006
Fred Jaquith, an insurance executive who had fought with the Army Signal Corps in World War II, died in early April, according to the death notice in the Providence Journal. Jaquith was born in Boston, lived in Warwick, graduated cum laude from Boston College in 1941, and received his M.B.A.
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Jane Aiken, 68; Art History Professor
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04/15/2006
Jane Aiken could never turn down a challenge. In spite of contracting polio during her senior year of high school, she graduated first in her class. She then majored in art history at Wellesley and and earned a master’s degree at Columbia in 1962. After marrying and raising three children, she received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1985 at the age of 47. She taught Renaissance art history at
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Barry Bingham Jr., 72; Louisville Publisher
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04/04/2006
Barry Bingham Jr., former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and one-third of the “corrosive feud” (NYT) that led to the dissolution of the Bingham media empire, died April 3rd from respiratory failure. He was 72.
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James O. Freedman, 70; President Emeritus of Dartmouth
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03/22/2006
