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...policies, donations to the Senior Gift are seen by alums as evidence that Harvard is still a good target for largesse. If alums find out that students are angry because Harvard is complicit in genocide, they might decide to send their money somewhere else. Though Harvard would never admit a connection, alumni boycotts on donations preceded Harvard’s selective divestment from South African assets during the reign of the apartheid government. The Senior Gift may not be a lot of money, but students have a lot of power if they are willing to put their money where their...
...There are two messages from the central bank, one obvious, the other subtle. First, Australians are about to experience a rise in interest rates at a time when those who adjust the knobs on monetary policy admit that the job of doing so has never been more difficult. In part, that's because the evidence is inconclusive on whether the economy is running too fast (and hence requires a quick cold shower), or if it has slowed enough to ease the pressure on inflation. Professional economists cannot agree on what the board of the Reserve Bank's next move...
Being wrong sucks. But not just because you might have to admit to it, but because it might make your life a little less interesting. Here’s to hoping that, for me anyway, it doesn’t happen again...
...however, the flurry of activity has done little to mollify critics both outside the agency and within. "I think the FDA is beginning to admit, in sort of a halting and hesitating fashion, that it hasn't done a good job with drug safety," says Dr. David Graham, the associate director for science and medicine in the agency's Office of Drug Safety and its chief whistle-blower. Graham calls the latest changes "cosmetic." An FDA official counters, saying they are "significant" and promise to have "a profound impact...
Executives at Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's largest telecommunications company, admit they've been watching the merger wave now engulfing U.S. phone companies with a sense of foreboding. Especially unnerving was the announcement earlier this month that 130-year-old AT&T, the American former monopoly carrier that not long ago was the oldest, biggest and baddest telecom firm on the planet, was about to be swallowed up by upstart regional player SBC?providing a sobering reminder that in the information age, no institution is too big to fail if it squanders its competitive edge...