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...statements of former Federal Reserve 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...
...Junior Class Does Junior High” dance. Most notably, the office found the magic formula for a successful Harvard State Fair in the fall and Yardfest in the spring: close the dining halls, and pour carnival food into Tercentenary Theater. Drawn by a mechanical bull and Ben Folds, respectively, and by dinner on both occasions, students flocked to the events, with many exclaiming afterwards that the events felt like a “real college experience.”Yardfest was possible due in large part to the generosity of the president’s office, which funded...
...taught Psychology 1501, “Social Psychology of Organizations” and Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology”—a course he developed and led for several years before handing it off to his protégé, Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96.Internationally, Stone is known for the creation of a software system called the General Inquirer, which performs content analysis on text gathered from surveys and questionnaires.At a time when computers were still a foreign concept to many, Stone “was the first person to identify...
...been supporting initiatives relating to student life to create a greater sense of College community. We have sponsored a number of campus-wide events, from the first annual welcome back event, the Harvard State Fair, to the Harvard-Yale pep rally to this spring’s Yardfest featuring Ben Folds. All of these events were enthusiastically attended and will be held again next year, with the addition of the new student-run College Events Board to help with planning and scheduling. New student social space will also be constructed over the summer. In October, a café will open...
...last week. “I have never really felt that I couldn’t fund the initiatives that I wanted to.”College projects that have also received funding from Summers’ office this year include April’s Yardfest, featuring pop artist Ben Folds, the renovations of Loker, the creation of the café in Lamont Library, and the Harvard State Fair last fall.But while the president’s office has stepped up to fund the College’s projects, Summers has suggested frequently that the College needs to find...