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...Sprinkles agreed to give Freddy y Joel's $750 and a strawberry-cupcake recipe in exchange for regular reports on sales of that cupcake as well as a list of our three best-selling flavors. We agreed not to open a Freddy y Joel's in California, and in return Sprinkles would stay out of our section of Managua. Nelson will consult for Freddy y Joel's and serve on our board, and we will name our cupcake line Pedacitos, which may or may not mean sprinkles in Spanish. I told Nelson she could have 2% of the company...
President-elect Barack Obama filled the last of the four top economic positions Monday, announcing that his Council of Economic Advisers will be chaired by University of California at Berkeley economist Christina D. Romer, who was a subject of national indignation earlier this year when Harvard did not offer her a tenured professorship. Economists, including Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, a former CEA chief under President Bush, have hailed Obama’s pick as an “excellent choice.” Though the role of the CEA has been diminished since former President Clinton created the National...
...list down to about 100. The final choices were then made by a national committee of two dozen people. “It’s a very strong selection committee,” said CPL Director David R. Gergen, who co-chaired the committee with University of Southern California professor Warren Bennis. “It is composed of former honorees as well as faculty members from universities across the country and an assortment of others who have been interested in the project.” The CPL also recently published its annual “National Leadership Index...
Cambridge might be getting colder, but that clearly isn’t an issue for Evelyn L. Hu or David R. Clarke, who will be leaving the sunny beaches of California for the soon-to-be icy paths of Harvard Yard. “I really miss the seasons,” Hu said. “I don’t mind the cold.” Hu—currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)—was recently appointed a professor of applied physics and electrical...
...school here, and my brother’s flying down from New York, so I’ll be having Thanksgiving with them, I guess,” said Phillip Y. Zhang ’12, a resident of Canaday Hall. “I’m from California, so going home is too much of a hassle...