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...like a government than an individual or a business firm. With its reputation and available funds, the university is not going anywhere, but delaying improvements will have dismal effects on future endowment performance. The current global economic crisis is being fought by governments from South Africa to Japan with counter-cyclical measures that attempt to hasten the move from recession to growth. The now-revived Keynesian approach justifies the deep temporary deficits with the promise of future growth. The same applies to Harvard, for the endowment will continue to grow–and receive fresh funds–as soon...
...attract better faculty, and bring more prestige to the university. Housing renovations will improve student life and happiness surveys—the backbone of FAS. Hence the debate should not be about changing the way HMC invests (they almost always know better than the pundits), but rather about enacting counter-cyclical measures to take advantage of the downturn in order to grow faster and stronger than the competition...
...something to do with wanting to survive as a writer. Sooner or later it would be nice if I could make my publisher some money.” It’s not that “Lowboy” belongs at a supermarket checkout counter, but the more I read the more I realized he was telling me things I already knew. A great novel is magical—this was more like an eerily accurate palm reading, skillfully executed and titillating in its own way, but content to keep out of the great beyond...
David Kilcullen, a counter-terrorism expert for both the Bush and the Obama administrations, warned that Pakistan is on the brink of collapse. "Afghanistan doesn't worry me," Kilcullen said in an April 12 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. "Pakistan does. We have to face the fact that if Pakistan collapses it will dwarf anything we have seen so far in whatever we're calling the war on terror...
...past few years are anything to go by, the successful candidate will help MI5 grapple with terrorism, work to stymie the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and sharpen its surveillance and counter-intelligence efforts. "There's an enormous amount of scientific content in this role," Professor John Beddington, the government's chief scientific adviser, told the BBC. On top of that, "it will involve a sort of future gazing to see where technology will be taking us in a year...