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...Chairman Alan Greenspan may already be getting nostalgiac. In most relationships, brutal honesty (or transparency, as it's known in business-speak) is a double-edged sword, and never was that more apparent than in the swift reaction to Monday's candid comments by Ben Bernanke, Greenspan's relatively straight-talking succcessor at the Fed. In a speech to an international monetary conference, Bernanke took a hard stance against inflation and implied interest rates would continue to rise in order to keep inflation in check, all of which sent stocks tumbling, with the Dow falling more than 2%, or almost...
Ballasted with 370 years of precedent and tradition, Harvard is the flagship of higher education. But it plows ahead in straight lines, changing little as the years tick on and as it loses ground to more agile institutions which constantly innovate and reinvent themselves. If Harvard is to navigate the serpentine channel that lies ahead and still remain at the forefront of higher education, it must overcome its overwhelming inertia. But the course is difficult, and will require a bold, visionary, and audacious helmsman to chart.For that role we turn to a small crew of 11 who will steer Harvard...
...Abernathy had written to Houghton asking for comment on the Shleifer matter. Like a customer dissatisfied with a store employee, Abernathy was going straight to the supervisor...
...satisfied now will always have that effect. Finally, when I imagine the future, my mind’s eye leaves out much of what the future will contain. I imagine how sad you’ll be if the Steelers don’t win a second straight Super Bowl, without accounting for the happiness you will derive from reading a great book, going to Shay’s, or winning a crew race.Given the difficulties in predicting the future, the only certainty is that you will find yourself in situations I never would have imagined. The good news...
Vacation came early for the Radcliffe heavweight crew this year, but not in a way that the rowers would have preferred. After eight straight appearances in the NCAA Championships, including a third-place finish last year, the Black and White was left without an invitation this year. Radcliffe was hurt by a four-regatta losing streak towards the end of the season. The streak included surprising losses to Boston University and Dartmouth, as well as defeats against rivals Princeton and Yale. The young squad, which consistently had only three seniors on its varsity eight boat, began the season right...