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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is slamming Harvard for hosting a Palestinian professor who has blamed Israel for the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. The Democratic lawmaker said he was "truly appalled" that Harvard’s Kennedy School would platform Dr. Dalal Saeb Iriqat, a columnist and associate professor at Arab American University Palestine. Dr. Iriqat is scheduled to speak at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs on March 7 for a seminar series called "Middle East Dialogues." "I am truly appalled that the Kennedy School would platform an individual who celebrates and justifies Hamas’ October 7th killing of...

Harvard University’s Provost and Interim President Dr. Alan Garber has made millions from sitting on pharmaceutical company boards during his time with the school. Garber made more than $2.7 million from board seats with pharmaceutical firms Exelixis, Inc. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals since becoming Harvard provost in 2011, the Harvard Crimson reported in 2019, citing company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Both firms confirmed to the outlet Garber received compensation without performing any additional duties beyond his board memberships. ... He joined Exelixis’ board in 2005 and received $2.3 million from the company, $1.6 of which came after...

An Israeli billionaire says he and his wife are quitting the board of Harvard University's famous Kennedy School of Business over the school's president's response to the surprise Hamas attacks in Israel. Idan Ofer is the founder of Eastern Pacific Shipping reportedly worth over $14billion, according to Forbes. His wife Batia is an art collector and the descendant of Holocaust survivors. Batia Ofer told the Hebrew-language outlet TheMarker that she and her husband are both quitting the school's executive board over President Claudine Gay's response to 31 Harvard organizations signing a letter placed the blame on Israel for Hamas' brutal...

Americans are becoming only too aware of the financial tricks and deceit in which some of the nation's largest and most respected corporations engaged during the Clinton administration to pump up stock prices with fraudulently inflated profits. When the huge bubble no longer could be sustained the men and women at the top would bail out of their stock and pocket millions, leaving pensioners and other investors holding an empty bag. To market insiders these are known as "pump and dumps." While federal investigators are looking into the corporate malfeasance at Enron, WorldCom, Qwest Communications, AOL Time Warner and...

As most of you have read or seen by now, a journalist and NBC/MSNBC media consultant named William “Bill” Arkin has created quite a stir by viciously insulting American soldiers in Iraq. He wrote at his Washington Post blog, “Early Warning: William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security” column (1/30/07), that “… this NBC (Nightly News) report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary - oops sorry, volunteer force that thinks it is doing the dirty work” re Iraq. The “report,” according to Arkin, featured “a number of soldiers (who) expressed frustration with...

<p>WASHINGTON — Ten Russian intelligence officers have been arrested for allegedly serving as illegal agents of the Russian government in the United States, the Justice Department announced Monday.</p>

Snips from Excerpt only site: One of the 10 people arrested on Sunday as part of a Russian spy network aimed at infiltrating U.S. policymaking circles appears to have attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University — one of the most influential venues in U.S. policymaking circles. The LinkedIn profile also lists Heathfield as a past partner at Global Partners Inc., a management consulting firm that lists Abbott Labs, Boston Scientific, and GE as clients. Global Partners' website also lists a Donald Heathfield. When Yahoo! News told Carolyn Quintin, one of Heathfield's partners at the firm, of his...

by Mark Finkelstein August 25, 2006 - 08:00 Remember George H.W. Bush? The one who was derided by the MSM for his lack of toughness? The man Newsweek put on its cover with the sneering headline "Fighting the Wimp Factor"? Scratch all that. As per this morning's Today show, it turns out H.W. wasn't a wimp at all. Not only was he a 'diplomat', above all he was someone who knew how to successfully fight a war in Iraq. What caused Today to catch a bad case of SORS: Sudden-Onset Revisionism Syndrome? It's that old truism at work: the MSM...

HARVARD Kennedy School goes soft over Hardball BY DAVID S. BERNSTEIN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twenty minutes before the start of a live October 13 interview of presidential hopeful Senator John Edwards, MSNBC taped footage for use in future advertising spots for its Hardball program. A producer told audience members to jump to their feet and cheer loudly as host Chris Matthews came out, and encouraged those in the front seats to give Matthews high-fives. They did exactly as instructed, adding impromptu whistles and hollers. The network has been using that footage to advertise its Battle for the White House series ever since....

Historian Richard Neustadt Dies at 84 By BIPASHA RAY Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Richard E. Neustadt, the noted presidential adviser, scholar and historian who was a founder of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, has died, close friend and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said Saturday. He was 84. Neustadt died Friday in England, Reich told The Associated Press, adding he learned the news from Neustadt's wife. The historian had fallen about a week ago and his health rapidly declined, he said. "He was a very vigorous man, intellectually sharp as a tack and obviously one of America's pre-eminent...

<p>To Harvard University, Greek billionaire Socrates Kokkalis is a generous donor, a visionary promoting democracy and free markets in Eastern and Central Europe.</p> <p>But in Greece, Kokkalis is being investigated for betraying his country to communist spies. The 64-year-old telecommunications magnate has been charged with funneling information to East Germany during the Cold War, and also faces charges of fraud, money-laundering, and embezzlement.</p>

Commissioner Barbara Carey-Schuler had asked the county attorney to draw up a resolution directing county staff to seek outside oversight of the election. In the end, Carey-Schuler decided Jimmy Carter might cause too much of a ruckus in the Cuban-Amercian community.'I don't want to bring in a group that will create more problems,' she said.Commissioners opted to seek help from another outside monitor, possibly Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.The resolution will be heard Thursday, it is expected to pass.While Comissioner Natacha Seijas said she didn't want Carter, most seemed supportive of an outside monitor.