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...Given the success of Charterhouse's buyout, there's speculation that Saga may soon go public. The company declines to discuss whether an IPO is in the works, but, according to one insurance industry analyst at a London investment bank, investors would likely welcome a flotation because of Saga's strong brand and impressive track record. And given that nearly half the U.K.'s adult population will be 50 or older by 2020, it's not about to run out of potential customers anytime soon...
...possibility of an array of unspecified economic and humanitarian assistance flowing to the North, as well as the prospect that the U.S. will remove the country from its list of terrorist-sponsoring states, end its trade sanctions and eventually enter talks to normalize relations. Meanwhile, Pyongyang agreed "to discuss all of its nuclear programs," including any stockpiles of plutonium already gleaned from the Yongbyon reactor. At her Feb. 13 press conference, Rice emphasized the phrase "all nuclear programs." She says the U.S. and its partners want the North to dismantle both its plutonium-based weapons program and a suspected uranium...
According to the syllabus, for instance, in its fifth meeting, the course discusses menstruation: “We will discuss the social and cultural stigmatization of women’s menstrual cycles and the concept of women’s genitals as ‘dirty.’” If the FemSex gang is implying that stigmatization of menstruation exists at Harvard—that female undergraduates are shunned for five days or so each month—then I guess I’ve missed the red tents inside the Yard. Alternatively, if FemSex facilitators...
Just a few hours after teaching her Civil War conference course, President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust appeared on Jim Lehrer’s “Newshour” last night to discuss her vision for the university she will head in just five months. Faust, who was confirmed on Sunday as Harvard’s 28th president, reiterated many of the points she made at a news conference on Sunday. She emphasized her desire to lead Harvard’s expansion into Allston and to improve undergraduate education. While Faust—currently the dean of the Radcliffe Institute...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is slated to discuss the final report of the Task Force on General Education at its meeting this afternoon, and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles has said a vote on the report may come as soon as March...