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...last year seeking flyover rights in Iraq and bunker-busting bombs to use in a preemptive strike against Iranian nuclear sites. This should be cause for grave concern, because, given America’s ties to Israel, if Israel were to launch a preemptive strike against Iran, America would almost certainly be drawn into an explosive conflict. Furthermore, a nuclear Iran poses a potential threat to its neighbors, particularly Saudi Arabia, with which it is jockeying for control of the region and has longstanding religious disagreements. A bomb in Tehran might push Riyadh to seek one as well, which could...
...when Harvard weathered the 1930s Depression. Allston will bring better research, attract better faculty, and bring more prestige to the university. Housing renovations will improve student life and happiness surveys—the backbone of FAS. Hence the debate should not be about changing the way HMC invests (they almost always know better than the pundits), but rather about enacting counter-cyclical measures to take advantage of the downturn in order to grow faster and stronger than the competition...
...spring season. “The Space Between” is an exploration of how to make theoretical physics manifest on stage. Inspired by the late Samuel Beckett, the play lacks a traditional form. Instead, it is divided into the intertwining stories of different couples who act almost as analogous pairs. The principle couple is Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb, and his wife, who in this play is called Eurydice. Both are dying and reflecting on their youth. Another story involves a Biblical Adam and Eve, echoed by a modern Adam, a painter...
...walk there?”So far, the project is on schedule, and librarians have begun to tour members of the History of Art and Architecture faculty as well as graduate students around the new Littauer facility. “It’s going beautifully. The space is almost complete,” Brainard says, noting that the only construction work left was finishing work in the stacks. As librarians organize and inventory everything in the collections in preparation for the laborious move, they are inevitably stumbling across new finds. Several thousand posters, lithographs, and engravings, for example, were...
...Real estate has traditionally been a difficult asset class to valuate and provides very limited liquidity. According to a University statement, real estate investments currently make up approximately 7 to 8 percent of the University’s endowment—a slight drop from the 9 percent, or almost $3.5 billion, allocated in 2008. Cummings will work with HMC’s head of external management, CEO, and real estate team to fill a “critical and strategic role” for the company “in light of the current global credit and real estate...