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...suit Tiger strategies to undermine the Sri Lankan economy. Though he has not faced any formal charges in Sri Lanka, Rajaratnam and the Galleon Group, the hedge fund he founded, have been linked by Sri Lankan financial authorities to a pending court case in which a sitting parliamentarian is among the accused facing charges of violating exchange control rules. (Watch a video about the final days of Sri Lanka's civil...
...some reason he has disappeared from his customary perch above the President’s head,” Lewis added, as Faust looked up and around in confusion and seemed to mouth to this year’s parliamentarian Thomas F. Kelly, “What...
Earlier in the meeting, the Faculty approved Kelly’s appointment as parliamentarian, a faculty member responsible for making sure that the monthly meetings are run according to standard rules. She informally welcomed Kelly to the position, saying, “Up here, Tom. I’ve been up here 15 minutes by myself, and that’s quite enough...
Kelly—a Music professor who will now help conduct Faculty meetings as parliamentarian, as he did for former University President Lawrence H. Summers—gladly listened to choral music performed by the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum before the Faculty meeting. So though the meeting lacked cookies for the first time in recent memory, it also boasted recorded music, another recent first...
...drive against airbrushed photos is being headed by conservative parliamentarian Valérie Boyer, who says the widespread use of digital technology to alter images is feeding the public a steady visual diet of falsified people, places and products. This artificial reality leads people to expect perfection from themselves and the world in an impossible way, she says. "When writers take a news item or real event and considerably embellish it, they are required to alert readers by calling the work fiction, a novel or a story based on dramatized facts. Why should it be any different for photographs?" Boyer...