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...Dean of the Faculty, emphasized that, despite being the world’s wealthiest institution of higher education, Harvard would not make it through the downturn completely unscathed. Faust added that resources are being allocated to cope with the situation. “This University has survived revolutions, [a] civil war, downturns, and depressions, for more than 370 years, and our endowment enables us to pursue our ambitions over the long term with great consistency,” Faust said. “But the world is enveloped in a serious financial crisis, and we are not an exception...
...Though his Bush credentials made him very unpopular, the Wolfowitz ouster wound up traumatizing many international organizations - and that was before general crisis set in," says a high-ranking French civil servant who worked with Strauss-Kahn before he won the IMF position. "Strauss-Kahn is viewed as accomplished, smart and very capable. Because of that, the prevailing view seems to be, 'Let's hope this turns out to be nothing, because the IMF and the world really needs this guy to come through...
...budgeting them remains a big political problem. Some members of the audience, however, were surprised at Flyvbjerg’s approach. “It’s pretty rare to hear people criticize the consequences of engineers with big imaginations,” said Travis P. Dunn, a civil engineering student at MIT. “His perspective is unique...
...regard as near mythical: 78% in Louisiana; 76% in Oklahoma; and four years ago, fully 86% in Mississippi. Two years ago, however, the winning streak stopped in John McCain's home state of Arizona, perhaps because conservatives had reached for too much, attempting to forbid both gay marriage and civil unions...
...ballot-box battles can be dispiriting for gays, who have otherwise grown used to hailing spectacular victories in the courts. Three state supreme courts - in Massachusetts, California and, just last week, Connecticut - have ruled that gays have the fundamental right to marry. Those courts have ruled that not even civil unions with all the legal trimmings of marriage can compensate. Gay-rights activists hope that Iowa's high court, will hear arguments in December and then rule as soon as January 2009 on a lower court's decision in favor of gay marriage, will bring judicial victories in state high...