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...river, one languishes near Wigglesworth Hall and three huddle around their very own private library, nearly a mile away from the rest. But if the University’s current plan for new construction in Allston goes through, all of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses will soon cluster around the Charles. And, thanks to a generally constructive process at least nominally involving students and faculty as well as administrators, Harvard’s new Allston campus has the potential to meet student demands and change the face of the College for the better...
...Harvard offers scant resources for the study of developing countries as it is. Outside the CID these are dispersed over dozens of departments and academic centers, such that students interested in majoring in the field must petition for a special concentration. Lacking the CID’s crucial cluster of resources, undergraduates would have virtually no incentive to study development. Summers has indicated that should he proceed with a shutdown, students would not lose these programs. Yet even assuming the ideal scenario—that all the CID’s tasks were to seamlessly transfer to other Harvard organizations?...
...cure for Zucker and more than 1 million other Americans with Type 1 diabetes, the most debilitating form of the disease, it may lie in a revolutionary new field of research based on manipulating human embryonic stem cells. These building blocks of life, when isolated in a microscopic cluster of cells, can morph into any kind of tissue. (So-called adult stem cells, which can be harvested without sacrificing embryos, can turn into only a few tissue types.) One day, scientists hope, the entire genetic makeup of a patient like Zucker could be transferred into a cloned human egg that...
Over the past two years, chief executives of 17 of the euro zone's 50 biggest public companies have been replaced, with almost half leaving under pressure. (That number doesn't include a cluster of large British, Swiss and Swedish firms where heads have also rolled.) Those include financial giants like Germany's Allianz and Credit Suisse of Switzerland; media titans, such as France's Vivendi Universal and Germany's Bertelsmann; and a bevy of telecom behemoths, such as France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Britain's Cable & Wireless...
...built the world's largest fashion and luxury-goods group didn't do so by being soft and frilly. Bernard Arnault, 54, controls Christian Dior and LVMH, which markets some 50 well-known brands, including Marc Jacobs fashions, Louis Vuitton bags and a cluster of famous champagnes. He put his empire together over 20 years and often used hard-nosed tactics to get what he wanted. He may not have created LVMH's brands, but more than anyone, Arnault understood their worldwide potential and how to exploit...