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...Amid concern that the crisis could prompt a severe recession if left unchecked, Congress is preparing to pass an unprecedented $700 billion bailout plan intended to bolster confidence in faltering U.S. financial institutions. As the crisis continues, Rogers said, alumni are still trying to assess the impact of recent events.“They are mostly saying now, ‘Wow, this is unprecedented,’ and are reluctant to prognosticate,” she said.Although financial markets have stagnated for over a year, Harvard has not experienced a drop in fundraising. The University recently announced its second...
Controversial Slavic author Dubravka Ugresicc shared how her experiences traveling throughout the globe has affected her writing and warned against the strict categorization of writers by their nationality in an address at the Barker Center on Friday afternoon. Despite the dreary weather, the event attracted a diverse audience of about 30, including Harvard professors of Czech and Polish Languages and Literatures, undergraduate and graduate students, and fans of Ugresic’s works from outside of the Harvard community. Ugresic, who taught briefly at Harvard in 1992, was invited as the first guest in a series of seminars hosted...
Scores of students traveled to the Quad on a damp Friday night to watch the much anticipated first presidential debate of the 2008 election season at an event co-sponsored by the Black Students Association and the Student Organization Center at Hilles...
...scheduled topic was foreign policy and national security, but for more than a third of the event the candidates argued over the issue of the day: the crisis on Wall Street and the broader issue of the economy...
Seniors beginning their job searches amid doom-ridden news of bank failures and Wall Street woes found a broader palette of jobs on display at the Office of Career Services’s Career Forum on Friday, an event that saw 1,500 students brave the pouring rain to meet with upwards of 140 employers. The participation of 38 consulting firms and 37 finance companies represented a strong presence at the event, though notably absent were major banks including Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, which have attended the career fair in the past. OCS’s interim director, Robin...