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...dollars to help her reform the schools--she doesn't smile or nod or do any of the things most people do to put others at ease. She reads her BlackBerry when people talk to her. I have seen her walk out of small meetings held for her benefit without a word of explanation. She says things most superintendents would not. "The thing that kills me about education is that it's so touchy-feely," she tells me one afternoon in her office. Then she raises her chin and does what I come to recognize as her standard imitation...
Perhaps that's the real benefit of having a fresh tree in your home. "Kids today are so out of touch with nature," says Bob Schildgen, the Sierra Club's environmental-advice columnist. "Just having a living thing in the house can enhance environmental values in a way you can't measure in dollars and cents." So may your days be merry and bright, but may all your Christmases (and any other holidays) be green...
...Spaepen said in the press release. Clarke did not wish to comment on his appointment. Both Hu and Clarke have also worked outside of academia—Hu at Bell Labs and Clarke at IBM—and both Venky and Spaepen believe these experiences will benefit their colleagues at SEAS. —Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu...
...Stone, a managing director at D.E. Shaw, said in a statement that while the firm was sorry to lose Summers, “we’re confident that the nation will benefit greatly from his economic leadership during a time when his formidable problem-solving skills are especially needed...
...likened the portal to a “sharing of our circulatory systems,” and said he envisions future lecture series from prominent Harvard professors for the benefit of the portal’s approximately 300 adult affiliates...