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Peter Huber is the co-author, with Mark Mills, of The Bottomless Well (Basic Books; 214 pages...
...University might have had other questionable investments, PetroChina was a particularly egregious and visible case that demanded the University’s consideration. It commanded student and faculty attention and thus the University responded to community concern. Harvard’s $25.9 billion dollar endowment is not a bottomless well of money that can be donated to charity. Harvard needs the money to fund education and research and maintain it’s preeminence in the academic world. In order to do so, it draws a small amount from the endowment each year, so in practice budgets are actually very...
...Filipinos have a schizophrenic view of their political leaders, from town mayors to provincial governors to Presidents. They must be generous patrons, doling out to people in need?as if they were benevolent Sultans with bottomless purses. But they must not be corrupt. In our personality-driven culture, clans and ritual bonds are important; ideologies and government programs are not. When things go right, it's because leaders are heroes of epic proportion. When things go wrong, we replace personalities rather than reinforce institutions and processes...
Before I leave you all to your bottomless pits of procrastination, the somber educational side of me feels it my duty to provide some links of more genuine value to adequately counterweight the drivel I’ve thus far laid down. The Harvard Library web site, geeky a suggestion as it may be, is actually a nice place to waste time—ProQuest Historical Newspapers can get you the complete content of a handful of widely syndicated newspapers, advertisements included, from any date back as far as the mid 19th century, and the Naxos Music Library...
...human tragedy.” With careful attention to detail, “Enron” documents the stories of the fresh young traders corrupted by the system, the trusting investors fleeced for all they were worth, and the executives possessed of a seemingly bottomless greed...