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...drew on what he had learned about transition economies as an undergraduate in Harvard’s economics department as he worked to modernize Iraq’s stock exchange and commerce law, Foley said...
...Summers’ successor Drew G. Faust, who took office this fall, was not present at the commissioning last summer. She did have an ROTC color guard participate in her installation ceremony...
...have been a place of worship or have astronomical significance. Since Victorian times, it has been popularly linked to New Age beliefs, particularly neo-Druidism - even though archeologists have shown that it was built long before Druidism arrived in England. Still, summer solstice gatherings by New Agers once drew huge crowds to Stonehenge. Fearing that the stones were at risk, English Heritage roped them off in 1977. In June 1985, 1,300 police officers confronted about 140 carloads of New Age travelers heading for Stonehenge, prompting the "Battle of the Beanfield." Since then, controlled gatherings within the monoliths have been...
...deals in India have been increasing over the past few years, and that last year’s average deal of $45 million was well above the country’s previous standard range. Vivek Paul, another panel member and a partner at private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, drew the audience’s attention to the growing number of opportunities available to businessmen in India. “India right now resembles the United States right after World War II,” Paul said. “And when you remember the long bull...
...Senate has approved a $2.1 billion increase to its proposed budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—by far Harvard’s largest source of federal dollars. Thursday’s vote came two days after University President Drew G. Faust testified before a Senate committee in favor of boosting the Institutes’ budget. NIH’s funding has seen a real-dollars decline in the last three years, leading many scientists to criticize Congress and the White House for stifling biomedical research. “The 13-percent loss in real dollars...