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...student’s memory of Harvard tends to encapsulate only four years, few are aware of the racial tension of the recent past and the Foundation’s role in ameliorating it. Through a wide range of events, the Foundation has not only helped to create a safe place for students of all backgrounds, but also it has helped to facilitate understanding through dialogue—a process that we hope has resulted in the bridging of differences through a realization of commonality...
...makes barely a dent in China's foreign-currency reserves, but it signals that the government wants to invest its dollar stash more aggressively. The deal was nicely timed--just before top Chinese officials arrived in Washington for talks aimed at reducing the bilateral trade deficit. "It's a safe bet. It's politically savvy and economically very smart," says Bank of America market strategist Joseph Quinlan. The Saudi plastics buy, in turn, is part of an effort to move up the economic food chain from pumping oil to making things of value out of it. The day after...
Until last year, partly as a result of the dollar-investing disasters described earlier and partly because most foreign investors preferred safe but low-yielding bonds, Americans earned more on their investments abroad than foreigners made here. This meant you could argue that our nation's decades-long spending binge had actually left it richer in relation to the rest of the world, not poorer. In 2006, though, the U.S.'s long-running investment-income surplus gave way to a deficit of $7.3 billion...
...been a bittersweet proposition in Southern California. Sure, it's eco-friendly, an excellent cardio workout and a pleasant alternative to snail's-pace public transportation, gridlocked freeways and king's-ransom gas prices. The drawback is finding a convenient, theft-proof parking spot. "When you can find a safe parking spot on the street, it's often 100 feet or more from your destination; and if there is secure bike parking, it's usually behind the building near the weeds next to a trash dumpster," says Russ Roca, a local photographer who doesn't own a car and hauls...
...cyclists, safe parking is a godsend: Jean Gurnee, who rides her bike seven miles from home each morning and leaves it with the Long Beach station attendant says, "It's worth it to pay for someone to keep an eye on your bike because there's no way I would just leave my bike locked up some place outside. Besides, they're nice people who fill my tires with air when they...