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...before, who attended Harvard pre-Stonewall—Stonewall being the 1969 New York riot which moved the modern LGBT rights movement towards a strategy based on widespread “coming out”—lived on a campus that probably had a climate more akin to that of 1920 than that of today...
...offer these insights to help readers understand why this fall’s first-ever Harvard LGBT Reunion is so important. Akin to similar LGBT reunions held at other Ivy League schools such as Dartmouth as well as those for other Harvard alumni subgroups such as African-Americans, Harvard’s first-ever LGBT Reunion offers the university a chance to reconnect with a group of alumni who are often alienated from the university and wary of attending its events. It offers Harvard the chance to show how it has changed for the better and that the Harvard...
...mortgage, the people who greenlight movies are facing more stringent demands from their financiers. "All of the studios, if they want to get a deal done in this environment, will need to better align their interests with investors," says P. John Burke, a film finance lawyer at the firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld...
...retirement accounts that hold bank products like CDs. On Sept. 16, however, there was an event in the normally unexcitable world of money-market funds. Because of a loss on Lehman debt, a money fund marked its share value below $1--sacrilege for an investment meant to be akin to cash. A mass redemption followed. If more money funds "break the buck," you may be tempted to move to FDIC-insured accounts. Just keep in mind that they might yield less, and only one money market has ever been liquidated...
...world. Moreover AIG’s dominance in the life insurance and fixed annuities markets makes its performance particularly important to the financial health of so many Americans. Trevor Jones, a managing director at Insurance Security Services, told the Financial Times that permitting the collapse of AIG would be akin to “taking the foundation stone out of a skyscraper.” That said, these bailouts highlight major issues with our current financial system at large. The risk-laden, unregulated environment in which these companies—such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and a host...