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Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 and the Federal Open Market Committee voted to slash the target federal funds rate, the overnight rate at which banks can lend to each other, by half a percentage point yesterday to four-and-three-quarters percent—a move that was met with moderate approval from Harvard’s economists. In a statement, the Fed said that “the tightening of credit conditions has the potential to intensify the housing correction and to restrain economic growth more generally,” and lowered the rate...
...undergraduate curriculum being implemented and I can think of all different kinds of opportunities for teaching and learning in human rights to impact the curriculum,” Faust said. Other speakers also called for increasing the opportunities for students to study human rights issues. Nancy L. Rosenblum, chair of the government department and a member of the committee, said that while there were an ample number of human rights-related offerings within the university, there was a lack of overall coordination. “What we don’t have is a comprehensive program. But we now have...
...rzburg trial, funded by the Otzberg, Germany-based diet food company Tavartis, which supplies the researchers with food packages, is still in its early, difficult stages. "One big problem we have," says Schmidt, sitting uncomfortably on a small, wooden chair in the crammed tea kitchen of Kämmerer's lab, "is that we are only allowed to enroll patients who have completely run out of all other therapeutic options." That means that most people in the study are faring very badly to begin with. All have exhausted traditional treatments, such as surgery, radiation and chemo, and even some alternative...
...held tri-weekly planning meetings in the Lamont Library Café with Michael R. Ragalie ’09, the chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee. They also met with Faculty of Arts and Sciences administrators to discuss the appointment of a new secretary of the Faculty and a new dean of the College...
...bell’s desk has been manned by students. Currier residents will still work there, but for fewer hours and with less responsibility.Some Currier residents argue that the new measures are stripping the Quad House of its character. But Shahram Khoshbin, who served as a resident tutor and chair of the House’s pre-medical advisory committee before becoming interim master, insists that real safety issues justify the changes.“Having been here for such a long time, we obviously had a long institutional memory,” Khoshbin said. “The problem...