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Kirkland House
Kirkland House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University, located near the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was named after John Thornton Kirkland, president of Harvard University from 1810 to 1828. Background Some of the buildings were built in 1914 but construction was not completed until 1933. Kirkland is one of the smallest Houses at Harvard, but has nevertheless managed to win many intramural and house-spirit contests, most recently the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Straus Cups. Before Harvard opted to use a lottery system to assign housing to upperclassmen, Kirkland was considered the "jock house" because its location near Anderson Bridge and the Soldiers Field made it a desirable home and convenient place to dine for Harvard athletes. The first Master of Kirkland House was Edward A. Whitney. Walter Eugene Clark succeeded Whitney as the second Master on September 1, 1935. The title of "House Master" was done away with at Harvard Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Harvard House System
Harvard College is the undergraduate education, undergraduate college of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College is Harvard University's traditional undergraduate program, offering BA (Bachelor of Arts) and BS (Bachelor of Science) degrees. It is highly selective, with fewer than four percent of applicants being offered admission as of 2022. Harvard College students participate in over 450 extracurricular organizations and nearly all live on campus. First-year students reside in or near Harvard Yard while upperclass students reside in other on-campus housing. History Harvard College was founded in 1636 by vote of the Massachusetts General Court, Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Two years later, the college became home to North America's first known printing press, carri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kirkland In Spring
Kirkland may refer to: Places Canada * Kirkland, Quebec, Canada * Kirkland Island, British Columbia, Canada * Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada United Kingdom * Kirkland, Culgaith, Cumbria, England, a village * Kirkland, Lamplugh, Cumbria, England, a village * Kirkland, Woodside, Cumbria, England, a hamlet * Kirkland, Kendal, Cumbria, England, a former parish now in Kendal * Kirkland, Lancashire, England, a parish * Kirkland, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, a List of United Kingdom locations: Kip-Kz, location ** Kirkland railway station, a former station there * Kirkland, Fife, Scotland; a former village, absorbed by Methil United States * Kirkland, Arizona, an unincorporated community * Kirkland, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Kirkland, Illinois, a village * Kirkland Township, Adams County, Indiana, a township * Kirkland, New York, a town * Kirkland, North Carolina, a census-designated place * Kirkland, Lincoln County, Tennessee, an unincorporated community * Kirkland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Charles Murray (political Scientist)
Charles Alan Murray (; born January 8, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. Murray's work is highly controversial. His book '' Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980'' (1984) discussed the American welfare system. In the book ''The Bell Curve'' (1994), he and co-author Richard Herrnstein argue that in 20th-century American society, intelligence became a better predictor than parental socioeconomic status or education level of many individual outcomes, including income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime, and that social welfare programs and education efforts to improve social outcomes for the disadvantaged are largely counterproductive. ''The Bell Curve'' also argues that average intelligence quotient (IQ) differences between racial and ethnic groups are at least partly genetic in origin, a view that is now considered discredited by s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Phil Murphy
Philip Dunton Murphy (born August 16, 1957) is an American politician, diplomat, and financier serving as the 56th governor of New Jersey since 2018. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was elected governor in 2017 New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2017 and narrowly reelected in 2021 New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2021. Murphy was the List of ambassadors of the United States to Germany, U.S. ambassador to Germany from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama. Born and raised in Needham, Massachusetts, Murphy has degrees from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He had a 23-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he held several high-level positions and accumulated considerable wealth before retiring in 2006. He then became active in politics. He was finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee in the mid-late 2000s under Howard Dean. While planning to run for governor of New Jersey, Murphy and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eric Lesser
Eric Philip Lesser (born February 27, 1985) is an American lawyer and politician who served in the Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts State Senate. Before representing his hometown of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and neighboring communities in the Greater-Springfield area, he worked as a White House aide during the Presidency of Barack Obama, Obama administration. Lesser is one of the originators of the White House Passover Seder. In the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2022 Massachusetts race for Lieutenant Governor, Lesser lost the Democratic primary to Kim Driscoll. While in the State Senate, Lesser advocated for a high-speed rail connection between eastern and western Massachusetts. He proposed and passed the Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights as well as provisions for job training, tourism and the arts, substance abuse treatment, and environmental issues, among others. Early life and education Lesser grew up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and graduated from Longme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jared Kushner
Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman and investor. He is a son-in-law of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, through his marriage to Ivanka Trump and served as a senior advisor in his father-in-law's first administration from 2017 to 2021. He was also director of the Office of American Innovation. For much of his career, Kushner worked as a real-estate investor in New York City, especially through the family business Kushner Companies. He took over the company after his father, Charles Kushner, was convicted for 18 criminal charges, including illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering in 2005, although Charles was pardoned by Trump in 2020. Jared met Ivanka Trump around 2005, and the couple married in 2009. He also became involved in the newspaper industry after purchasing ''The New York Observer'' in 2006. He was registered as a Democrat and donated to Democratic politicians for much of his life but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kevin Kallaugher
Kevin Kallaugher (born March 23, 1955, in Norwalk, Connecticut) is a political cartoonist for ''The Economist'' and the ''Baltimore Sun''. He cartoons using the pen name KAL. Editorial cartoon career Kallaugher graduated from Harvard College with honors in visual and environmental studies in 1977. After that, he undertook a cycling tour of the British Isles, joining the Brighton Bears Basketball Club as a player and coach. When the club ran into financial trouble, Kallaugher began drawing caricatures of tourists on Brighton Pier and in Trafalgar Square. In 1978 Kallaugher applied for a job working at ''The Economist'', regarding it as his final opportunity to land a cartooning job in the United Kingdom. He initially was offered the opportunity to work a one-day cartooning "trial". Coincidentally, his first assignment was to draw a caricature of Denis Healey, of whom Kallaugher had already drawn a caricature while watching a televised interview with Healey the previous evening. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vivian Hunt
Dame Vivian Yvonne Hunt (born July 1967) is a business executive and an advocate for equal opportunities across business and society. She is the Chief Innovation Officer at Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, which is listed 5th in the Fortune 500, with over 400,000 employees and revenues of $370 billion. Previously, she was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, helping global private and public companies improve their strategy, operations and performance. She served as Managing Partner of the UK and Ireland, McKinsey's second largest office from 2013-2020, and led their EMEA Life Sciences practice from 2007-2013. She is the President-elect of the Harvard Board of Overseers (June 2024-25). Early life and education Vivian Hunt was born in Cleveland, Ohio and has two brothers. During her childhood, she and her family lived in the United States of America and in Japan. She attended the Concord Academy in Massachusetts and graduated in 1985. Hunt has an MBA from Harvard Business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maura Healey
Maura Tracy Healey (born February 8, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, she served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 to 2023 and was 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, elected governor in 2022. Hired by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in 2007, Healey served as chief of the Civil Rights Division, where she led the state's challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. She was then appointed chief of the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau and then chief of the Business and Labor Bureau, before resigning, in 2013, to run for attorney general in 2014. She defeated former State Senator Warren Tolman in the Democratic primary and Republican attorney John Miller in the general election. Healey was reelected in 2018. She was 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, elected governor of Massachusetts in 2022. In 2014, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Barney Frank
Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a retired American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011 and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, was considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States during his time in Congress. Born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, Frank graduated from Bayonne High School, Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He worked as a political aide before winning election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1972. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980 with 52 percent of the vote. He was re-elected every term thereafter by wide margins. In 1987, he publicly came out as gay men, gay, becoming the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily. From 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Conway
George Thomas Conway III (born September 2, 1963) is an American lawyer and activist. Conway argued and won the 2010 case '' Morrison v. National Australia Bank'' before the Supreme Court of the United States. Conway was considered by President Donald Trump for appointment to two positions in the United States Department of Justice—Solicitor General of the United States and Assistant Attorney General heading the Civil Division—but Conway withdrew himself from consideration. In 2018, Conway emerged as a vocal Trump critic while his wife, Kellyanne Conway, worked for Trump from 2016 to 2020. During the 2020 presidential election, Conway was involved with the Lincoln Project, a coalition of former Republicans dedicated to defeating Trump. Early life and education George Conway's father, an electrical engineer, worked for defense contractor Raytheon. His mother was an organic chemist from the Philippines. Conway grew up outside Boston and graduated from Marlborough High Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Antony Blinken
Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 71st United States secretary of state from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor, deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and Deputy Secretary of State, deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. Blinken was previously National Security Advisor to the Vice President, national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2013. During the Presidency of Bill Clinton, Clinton administration, Blinken served in the United States Department of State, State Department and in senior positions on the United States National Security Council, National Security Council from 1994 to 2001. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2001 to 2002. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the United States Senate Committe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
