Those sums triggered what became an annual Harvard tradition: first, the disclosure (compelled by tax laws applying to nonprofits) of the HMC bonuses, followed by an outcry led by the late William Strauss and a group of Harvard alumni from his class of 1969.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It is the captain's task to mould the team, and Strauss will not be there to do so: something some of the other players in the group might also resent.

BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

Now Mr Strauss-Kahn, the real heavyweight among Europe's finance ministers, even though he joined the group only last June, is putting his own spin on the deal Mr Brown thought Britain had struck.

ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown, the lonely chancellor