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...funds—to finance this initiative. Harvard, like most research universities, depends on federal funding to conduct research. In 2007, Harvard received $329 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest source of federal funding for research. Over the past eight years, the Bush administration has repeatedly tightened the purse strings of the NIH; today only one in every four grant application is funded. Federal budget constraints will continue to tighten in the next few years, even if the credit markets begin to thaw. As the stock market continues to fall and central banks race...
...showered similar praise over her representative, Brittany L. Lin ’09. “She’s incredibly friendly and supportive of people in the House, she has a lot of House pride, and a lot of enthusiasm for Dunster activities,” Chen said. Eight of the 12 House representatives, elected by members of only their Houses, ran unsuccessful bids for class marshal, a position that requires obtaining votes from the entire senior class. One of the eight, Leverett House representative Camden Vilkin ’09, said that with the results of both...
...family man, a gentle-hearted, friendly and charismatic person unafraid to speak his mind. He was extremely bright, they say, scoring virtually perfect scores on the GMAT and possessing a keen business sense. Yet there was another side to him. Karns, who lived next door to the Rajarams for eight years, says he was a "very high-strung, very intense man, very tightly wound. I would hear things. Our bedrooms were right next to each other." (The master bedrooms of their respective houses are across a fence from each other.) "Through the years, there would be yelling. To my knowledge...
...lose. But while polls through September showed him and Obama in a dead heat, Obama seems to be pulling away as the nation's economic crisis worsens. Four polls released last week show Obama not only leading -one, by Quinnipiac University, has him up by as much as eight points - but breaking the 50% barrier for the first time...
...more than British art phenom Damien Hirst made in all of 2006. At Sotheby's Oct. 4 auction, the highest selling painting was Zhang Xiaogang's "Bloodline: Big Family No. 1," which sold for just under $3 million. In May, at rival auction house Christie's, a diptych of eight masked youths by Zeng Fanzhi fetched $9.7 million, a record for Asian contemporary artwork...