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Jeffrey Sachs
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04/29/2008
Is Jeffrey Sachs yearning to become an official government mandarin?
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The Accountant Who Roared
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04/10/2008
Linda Bilmes opens the books on the Iraq war and the Pentagon’s financial secrecy.
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Larry Summers on the Mend
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Editorial Blogs
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01/20/2008
The former Harvard president is doing his utmost to restore his reputation—and it's working.
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Drew Faust in the New York Sun
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01/09/2008
The New York daily loves the president's book—but its review also says something of her character.
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A Million Little Writers
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
Welcome to the world of celebrity academics–and the behind-the-scenes scribes who help make their fame and fortune possible.
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Fund Racer
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
A money man's hasty exit leaves Harvard in the lurch.
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Caroline M. Hoxby, AB '88
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10/31/2007
One of Harvard's top economists - and only African-American economics professor - has been lured away by Stanford. The Wall Street Journal recently stated this was 'possibly the biggest catch' yet in academia.
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Eric Maskin, AB '72, AM '74, PhD '76
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10/15/2007
American Trio Wins 2007 Nobel For Economics
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Are Harvard Students Ignorant?
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09/20/2007
A new study finds that Harvard students can't pass a basic test of American citizenship.
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The Case for a Carbon Tax
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Editorial Blogs
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09/17/2007
Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw shows that even conservatives worry about global warming.
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The Senator and the Scribe
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
On the occasion of a sex scandal, two Harvard alums cross paths for a second time.
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"A Huge Loss for Harvard"
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09/12/2007
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The Harvard 100
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
It's back! Our second annual list of the university's most influential alumni.
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Gregory Mankiw In—and On—the Times
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Editorial Blogs
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07/20/2007
The Harvard economist raises a question about ideology and the New York Times.
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Caroline Hoxby in the Journal
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Editorial Blogs
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06/15/2007
The Wall Street Journal reports on the loss of Harvard's economics star.
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A Few God Men
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Magazine Archives
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May/June 2007
Phillip E. Johnson went to Harvard, opposed the Vietnam War, and taught at Berkeley. But, along with two college peers, Johnson has
also devoted his life to promoting intelligent design. The true story of three former liberals and their fight to put God back in our schools.
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The Hubris Hall Of Fame: Class of 2007
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Magazine Archives
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Spring 2007
Harvard graduates have a reputation for flying particularly high, but the alumni bulletin rarely provides a good story about getting burned. To fill the void, we’ve assembled the most egregious cases of Harvard Hubris in recent memory, and their attendant comeuppance.
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The Red Badge of Dishonor
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Magazine Archives
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Spring 2007
Being a legacy admission is the dark secret of many an undergraduate. But is the reputation of being undeserving itself undeserved?
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C. Peter McColough, 84
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12/16/2006
CEO of Xerox; served as chairman of United Way of America; served as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee from 1974 through 1976; served on the Board of Trustees at New York Stock Exchange, Citibank, Union Carbide Corporation and Knight Ridder; worked initially for Lehigh Navigation Coal Sales Company in the USA before making the switch in 1954 to Xerox; taking over the presidency of Xerox in 1966, significantly changed and altered the direction and goals of Xerox Corporation; by 1979, he had built up Xerox revenues to $7 billion a year and its annual earnings to $563 million.
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Ruben Bolling, J.D. ’87
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12/01/2006
In his own words: “With a good political strip, or a topical one, the ideal response would be, 'Wow, how did he think of that? How did he think of that take on that subject?' My goal for a general humor one is, the reader would say, 'Wow, why did he think of that?'
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Susan Levine, A.B. '90
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09/29/2006
Spotlight: Levine’s songs are simultaneously rooted firmly in a narrative folk tradition and unlike anything you’ve heard. Her voice is both delicate and robust, and her poetic lyrics are worldly without being world-weary, and candid without being cynical.
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The Power House
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Magazine Archives
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Premier Issue
Not many people know just what the Harvard Corporation does, and that's exactly how the group's seven members like it. But after Lawrence Summers's departure, can Harvard's ruling council maintain its wall of silence, even as it handpicks the university's next president? An inside look at the power behind Harvard's throne.
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Robert W. Hartman, 68
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09/14/2006
Assistant director of the Special Studies Division at the Congressional Budget Office, 1991-96; acting deputy director, 1987-91; senior analyst, 1982-87; senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, 1971-82; research associate, 1969-71; taught economics at Brandeis University, 1963-68. Numerous publications including Pay and Pensions for Federal Workers (1983).
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Robert McDermott, 86
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08/30/2006
Deputy group operations officer of the 474th Fighter Bomber Group in World War II, flying sixty-one combat missions; remained in Europe on General Eisenhower's staff after the war; served in the Pentagon; taught economics at West Point for four years; assigned as vice dean and professor of economics at the Air Force Academy in 1954; appointed dean of faculty at the Air Force Academy in 1956; appointed the first permanent dean of faculty and promoted to brigadier general by President Eisenhower in 1959; chairman and chief executive officer of the United Services Automobile Association.
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Zane Thompson, 72
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08/24/2006
Trust counselor at Fiduciary Trust Co. in Boston, Mass. from 1963 to 1982, serving as a vice president at the time of his retirement.
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Amy Finkelstein, A.B. '95
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08/09/2006
Spotlight: With a skyrocketing portion of the nation’s output going to healthcare spending—thrice as much today as in 1960—observers both professional and lay have asked the same question: WTF? Amy Finkelstein may have the beginnings of the weird, head-scratch–inducing answer.
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Lee Roy Martin, 90
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07/13/2006
Professor of Economics at North Carolina State College (1948-58), the University of Arkansas (1958-63), the University of Michigan (1963-66), and the University of Minnesota (1966-1981); advisor to the Planning Board of the Government of Pakistan, aiding in producing their First Five Year Plan of Economic Development; communications officer during World War II.
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Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, M.P.A. ’00
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06/30/2006
Once trailing far behind leftist frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the conservative Calderón rapidly became a serious contender for the Mexican presidency when he started–what else?–running negative campaign ads. Since March, polls have shown him neck-and-neck with his opponent. The race, which ends on July 2, is still too close to call.
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George Breen, 94
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06/30/2006
Director of marketing research at Stanley Tool Works; author of five books on marketing, including Do-it-Yourself Marketing Research; adjunct professor at the Miami of Ohio School of Business; lieutenant in the Navy Air Corps during World War II.
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Edward G. "Ned" Brouse, 86
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06/11/2006
WWII Navy lieutenant, South Pacific; investment advisor, Buffalo, NY.
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Robert S. McCarter, 82
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06/10/2006
A World War II fighter pilot who went on to pursue a career in mortgage banking; collected WWII survival gear.
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Don A. Orton, 88
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05/28/2006
Former president of Lesley College, who greatly influenced the makeup of the school.
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Clarence Duane Meat, 24; Student Leader
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05/05/2006
A student leader among Harvard College Native Americans who hoped to put his training in economics to good use developing his home community was instead fatally shot there on May 3.
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Sergio Dolfi, 85; Retired Coca-Cola Executive, Sculptor
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05/03/2006
A career of more than 40 years with the Coca-Cola Company took Italian-born Sergio Dolfi to cities around the world, and allowed him to collect the exotic woods that fed his passion for sculpting.
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John Kenneth Galbraith, 97; Economist, Harvard Professor
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05/01/2006
Multitudes of major national and international dailies featured full-length obituaries for John Kenneth Galbraith, an economics philosopher, political adviser, ambassador, prolific best-selling author and, after his retirement, TV host.
Canadian-born and educated at the University of California-Berkeley, Galbraith maintained a ubiquitous presence through multiple U.S. administrations, according to the New York Times. Among those subject to his political influence were Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Roosevelt and Clinton, and Senator Eugene McCarthy. However Galbraith may be best remembered for his unabashedly liberal economic arguments that favored intervention by the government to rein in corporate power and distribute more tax money to public services.
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Felicia Stewart, 63; Doctor Pushed for 'Morning-After Pill' Contraceptive
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04/19/2006
Felicia Stewart was not afraid to take on a fight, especially one as controversial as abortion. The Harvard Medical school graduate and gynecologist, who succumbed to lung cancer on April 13, was a pioneer in the creation of Plan B, otherwise known as the morning after pill, reports the Los Angeles Times.
