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...public. But Blackstone's share price has sunk 35% below its June 2007 listing price of $31, costing CIC more than $1 billion. The pratfall appears to have prompted CIC to rein in its ambitions. Instead of splashy investments in the U.S. and Europe, the fund is now looking closer to home. It recently invested in Central Huijin Investment Co., a government agency with stakes in several of China's biggest state-run banks and brokerages, and will reportedly plunk another $66 billion into Agricultural Bank of China. To the extent CIC looks for investments abroad, its Chairman Lou Jiwei...
...tough guy Chuck Norris. Then Huckabee's speech to a gathering of social conservatives in Washington was a grand slam over the right-field fence. After a year of hard work, he woke up an overnight sensation in the polls. An audience in Newton, Iowa, this week numbered closer to 200 than two dozen, and Huckabee's words were being recorded by journalists from Britain, Ireland and Spain. "I'm a pretty happy guy," he told the gathering...
...looms ominously behind top-ranked New Hampshire while the mystery voter turned women’s hockey sage gains a following.That’s right—when the new national rankings were released on Monday, two more voters had joined the Crimson bandwagon, and Harvard pulled even closer to claiming the top spot.If there is any poetry to the mystery voter’s prophecy, the Crimson will overtake the Wildcats next Friday when it visits them in Durham, N.H. But a No. 1 Harvard might become a reality much sooner than that.By no means does the Crimson...
Matching the academic interests of advisers and advisees works well in the sophomore advising program. Students are, after all, much closer to knowing which fields they are interested in pursuing. Freshman year, on the other hand, should be a time of exploration of the many academic opportunities available at Harvard. Many freshmen enter the College believing they will pursue one field, only to discover an academic interest in an entirely different field as they take classes and listen to their peers. If freshmen were assigned one exclusive adviser each based on stated choice of field in the summer before coming...
...more alienated by the two parties than adults,” said Professor Robert J. Blendon, who directs the Harvard Opinion Research Program. Since the prior administration of the survey in March, the number of undecided likely Republican voters has risen. “Usually, as you get closer to the decision, the number of undecideds shrinks. It shows how competitive the race is and how volatile people’s views are,” said Blendon, who is a professor at KSG and the School of Public Health...