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Newsmaker of the Year

By Alison Go

January 15, 2008 RSS Feed Print

Choose the higher education mover and shaker of 2007.

Who was this year's top newsmaker?
Mark Zuckerberg: Got really rich, but managed to annoy a lot of users.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Sparked huge protests at Columbia University's New York campus.
Don Imus: The radio shock jock's disparaging remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team got him canned.
Drew Faust: Harvard's first female president
Andrew Cuomo: As the student debtor's white knight, he blew open a student loan scandal early this year.


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