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...chief investment officer is expected to direct the university’s asset allocation away from the current emphasis on traditional equities to hedge funds and private equity, moving closer to American universities’ strategies...
...campus, but the depression of Soldiers Field Road should be an immediate priority, not a “long-term” objective. Connectivity between the two campuses, University planners recognize, is of the utmost importance, but true connectivity cannot be attained until Soldiers Field Road is buried, allowing direct access both to the Charles and to campus facilities on either side of the river. Simply put, the Allston campus cannot thrive as an integral part of the University’s physical space if it is divided, both physically and psychologically, from the Cambridge center...
...that reason, the new ICA has glass everywhere, both clear and translucent, which is unusual for a museum, a place that has to protect artworks from direct light. The architects have got around that problem by clustering the galleries in enclosed space on the fourth floor while placing most of the public spaces on the lower, more light-filled, levels. Even the 325-seat theater space is bounded on two sides by double-height glass walls so that performances can take place against the backdrop of the harbor. (The walls can also be closed off with scrims when necessary...
...DIED. Hong Xuezhi, 94, long-serving Chinese military officer who, as a vice commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, helped direct the fight against U.S.-led coalition forces during the Korean War; in Beijing. Promoted to general for his role in aiding North Korea, Hong was purged in 1959 for his ties to opponents of Chairman Mao Zedong. Rehabilitated in the 1970s, he was pushed out again in 1989 for reportedly opposing the use of force during the bloody Tiananmen crackdown. Numbers 1,348 days Length of U.S. involvement in World War II, a milestone the U.S. involvement...
...holiday shopping season kicks off. “People are buying things online, and it’s been great. It’s all for themselves so far, but gift-giving will start sooner or later,” he said. Despite anti-consumption efforts and attempts to direct the shopping traffic online, the crowd of shoppers in Harvard Square went from store to store to find gifts for loved ones. “I want to give daddy a black horn necklace,” said Caroline Clanton, an 11-year-old visitor from the Jersey shore...