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Harvard announces the value of its endowment slipped in the last fiscal year for the first time in 17 years, from $19.2 billion to $18.3 billion. Harvard Management Company, the organization that invests the endowment, cites the economic downturn and decline of the stock market as causes for the drop...
Particularly hurt in this economic downturn have been the same high-flying sectors that employed so many Harvard students in the boom years...
...hope students with [career] dreams didn’t alter them without checking to see if they were possible,” Wright-Swadel says. “The reality is that [the current economic downturn] isn’t going to have a dramatic effect on long-term career options...
...economic downturn means that students are being more creative in job prospects,” says Adams House pre-law and public interest tutor Rebecca D. Onie ’97-’98. “Students feel liberated because they can think outside the box, because the traditional boxes are smaller...
Even today, the disparity in anxiety level between the two sexes continues. In last week's TIME/CNN poll, for instance, a healthy majority of men said they were more fearful about an economic downturn than another terrorist attack (56% to 37%); women, on the other hand, were marginally more worried about terrorism (47% to 43%). And 59% of men said they are more concerned about national security than they were before 9/11, but 71% of women are. Among moms with children under 18, the figure...