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...Meanwhile, the national media has used Harvard as a symbol of the bubble: The endowment that quadrupled since 2000 is now crashing down, producing a hard landing for the Harvard Management Company. Given the illiquid nature of many of the diversified endowment’s assets, the university has had to issue IOUs with comparatively high yields to maintain the liquidity needed to keep functioning...
...media has once again proven capable of amplifying the United Nations anti-racism contretemps as well as the plight of yet another privileged dual citizen of the U.S. and Iran to echo a fresh confirmation of the old accusations. Just as the real possibility of a U.S.-Iran rapprochement began to transcend the nuclear issue and seem no longer a mere fantasy with Washington’s change of atmosphere and Tehran’s continuous pragmatism, the opposing forces to dialogue in Washington and beyond have now found new grounds in Roxana Saberi’s arbitrary imprisonment...
...says. “It’s about taking an equation that you can write on a wall and making it into something that you can hear and see and even sometimes touch.” In order to realize this goal, the play incorporates many forms of media, such as video, trapeze, and dance. “It’s also an incredibly beautiful show. There’s trapeze, video… it’s very lush,” Jesse W. Barron ’09, who plays Richard Feynman in the show...
...privatization of homeland security,” but these references are liminal at best. The possibility of making a political statement exists but is ultimately fruitless. Rather, the real commentary in “State of Play” is about the deteriorating state of print media. “The real story is the sinking of this bloody newspaper!” Globe editor Cameron Lynne (Helen Mirren) yells at her reporters in one scene. The paper is failing, and Cameron is caught in the conflict between traditional journalism and new technology—a conflict embodied in Della...
...Concerns about industry ties—which have gathered steam nationwide in recent years—erupted at the Medical School last fall after students protested what they alleged were undisclosed and unethical conflicts of interest in their classes, drawing national media attention...