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...base camp. The Tibetans reported that he was dead, according to the dispatch, and the base camp officials informed his family.According to Osborne, Hall refused to keep his gloves or hat on and kept inching towards the edge of the cliff. They had to anchor Hall in the snow to keep him steady.“He later told us that he thought he was on a boat. And he wanted to get off that boat,” Osborne said.Osborne’s team radioed the base camp and waited with Hall for four hours, warming...
...years to buy out the parcels of land required to begin construction.The College intended to use the extra space afforded by Quincy to diminish overcrowding and to devote the other two Houses to increasing the number of admitted students. The University opened the $4 million health center—snow called University Health Services—on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets in the fall of 1961, putting Harvard’s health services among the eight “most advanced and efficient” of all American universities, Dana L. Farnsworth, former Director of University...
President Bush followed a well-worn path to the Goldman Sachs well when he tapped Hank Paulson, the firm's CEO since 1999, to succeed John Snow as Treasury Secretary. Across Wall Street, they are hoping that Paulson can bring a gravitas to the job that has been missing since the tenures of Larry Summers and another former Goldman executive, Robert Rubin, both of whom served under President Clinton...
...there is no guarantee that Paulson can live up to his reputation as a get-it-done boss. "We'll have to see if he signed a pre-nup," says Ethan Harris, chief economist at Lehman Brothers. That's a pointed reference to the limited role that Snow was allowed to play in shaping economic policy under Bush, who has preferred to keep his own counsel and that of Vice President Cheney and top adviser Karl Rove. Snow was widely seen as a pitchman for policies that others wrote...
...even Bush may be losing his patience. Which raises the question: If Snow goes, who gets to ride into the sunset as Bush's (presumably) last Treasury chief? The choice will tell us a couple of things...