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Dodging the credit crunch has burnished its image, too. According to the MDRC survey, lenders hit hardest by the subprime snafu suffered sharp drops in client-satisfaction scores at their private-banking or wealth-management units. The worry, says Williams, was that "these pristine organizations were shown to be pretty sloppily run." Take UBS, the world's largest asset manager. Exposure to the U.S. mortgage market at its investment-banking unit has triggered $37 billion in write-downs over the last few months. Spooked by these signs of slack judgment, some private-banking clients have yanked their cash; shareholders have...
Harvard Green Campus Initiative Director Leith J. Sharp said she hopes that the green attitudes practiced will spread beyond the competition’s participants...
...crisis appeared to remain stalemated, despite the fresh fighting and sharp rhetoric. The advance by Iraqi security forces on Sadr City seems to have stalled, and it remains unclear what picture will be revealed in Basra in the coming days following the supposed gains by Iraqi troopers. Iraqi security forces have yet to land a major blow against al-Sadr's militia, and reports of defection and retreats by Iraqi troopers fighting militiamen continue to circulate...
...three innings and then padded their lead in the seventh. The final two runs turned out to be the winning margin. “They came out aggressive, they came out swinging,” Allard said of Boston College. “We weren’t real sharp on the mound today. I think them jumping on pitchers early definitely helped them take some momentum early.” —Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...
...this time in the form of a recipe or two for baked apples and homemade apple sauce. According to this philosophy, if cooking returns to its roots and becomes commonplace knowledge among members of a society, the rate of packaged food consumption will decrease dramatically. Along with this sharp decline in processed food, the American population would dramatically lower its intake of sugars, salts, and unhealthy fats, and the obesity epidemic would plateau, if not decline.Eisenberg structured the conference as a pseudo-teaching kitchen, his dream location for the application of this philosophy. Eisenberg sought to structure the workship...