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Summers said, “I just raised the question of: is it a good idea for the University to think about hedging to avoid risk and the financial people are working on it?” Summers said...
...supposed to be judgment day for University President Lawrence H. Summers. But rather than subject himself to the possibility of a second annual vote of “no confidence” from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard’s embattled president decided instead to avoid another round of public humiliation by relinquishing his cherished throne...
...blown conflagration will depend on choices made by political leaders. As bodies continued to pile up, Tuesday, following a series of suicide bombings that killed at least 55 people, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad suggested the crisis had passed because Iraq's elected leaders had decided to work together to avoid a civil war. Khalilzad has been working behind the scenes to coax the main Sunni parliamentary parties back to the negotiating table and to tamp down the belligerence of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the largest party...
...implement to win a few bonus points, like the financing of an undergraduate women’s center. It does not matter whether these are good, bad or ill-conceived ideas; it matters only that they are pro-diversity.Follow these rules, but chiefly remember to be quiet and deferential, and avoid speaking of your own “vision.” Everywhere people are bandying about the buzz word “reform,” but don’t be fooled: The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, your effectual boss, is profoundly satisfied with the status...
...people surveyed in the study, 46 percent said that they would stop eating poultry if the flu appeared in American farm birds. If human cases appeared in their state, 71 percent said they would avoid public events and 68 percent said they would stay home and keep their children at home...