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...course you had help. There are scores of disgruntled Folklore and Mythology concentrators pushing papers in investment banks. You brought them together in the most Harvardian of ways (an ice-cream social) and told them of your plan. They were only eager to oblige, and before long corporate numbers up and down Wall Street were being turned into works of folklore and mythology. Now that there essentially is no Wall Street, these people are finally free to answer their true calling: studying goblins in Ireland. They may eventually end up on welfare, but that is beside the point...
...stops away and some from other states or countries. Camila Henao, a senior at the Universidad de los Andes in Columbia, came with a delegation from the school’s Foundation for Columbian Women, at the urging of their director, a Harvard alumnus. Others were eager to learn about how the recent financial crisis would affect their own career planning. “Especially with the economy the way it is right now, I just wanted to see what options are still out there and what the restrictions are,” said Ruizhi Yu, a sophomore at Princeton...
...panelists and audience members. The two also gave their thoughts on the future of health care policy in light of the recent financial turmoil. “This crisis highlights the need to do more,” Cutler said. “Senator Obama is now even more eager to deal with [health care-related] issues.” Philipson approached the topic more cautiously. “I don’t think either camp has a Plan B for health care [should the bailout plan go through],” Philipson said. “Clearly...
...Malaria are betting that investing in such facilities will boost these nations' ability to combat not just TB but other infectious diseases too. UNITAID, the international drug-purchasing organization, has pledged $26.1 million to the effort, while the Global Fund promises to entertain grant proposals from countries eager to build such labs. "We don't have the luxury of having a simple saliva test that tells you in one minute if you have MDR TB," says Dr. Mario Raviglione, director of WHO's Stop TB program. "We have to work with what we have...
...Israeli military sources say that Barak requested the radar from U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in July, after U.S. requests to station such a system in Turkey and Jordan were rejected. Barak was eager to acquire the advantage of the early warning that the system would provide in the event of a possible Iranian attack. But with the Russians already peeved at Israel for having had military advisers inside Georgia when war broke out over South Ossetia, the radar's deployment in Israel, say officials, might make Moscow even more likely to supply Iran and Syria with its highly...