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...next academic year. Faust praised Vautin's "exceptional effectiveness and dedication" in the release and added that his staying on will provide "important continuity" as she embarks on the search for Harvard's next executive vice president. The recently created position is currently held by Goldman Sachs veteran Edward C. Forst '82, who announced his intention to step down on August 1 after less than a year to return to Wall Street...
...that a collapse of the U.S. banking system seems unlikely, stock-market watchers have found a new thing to worry about: rising interest rates. The yield on the government's 10-year Treasury bond is up 65% this year to a recent 3.83%. Says top Wall Street strategist Edward Yardeni, "If bond yields get up to 4.5%, so not much higher than they are now, I think we would see a real decline in mortgage refinancing, which would threaten the viability of the economic recovery." (Read "Economic Recovery: Will Corporate Profits Recoup...
...Chicago--venue of that Obama first date--discovered recently. In April the museum, which gets about $6.5 million a year in support from the city, announced plans to increase admission for adults from $12 to $18 while eliminating its separate charge for special exhibitions. In response, Chicago alderman Edward Burke threatened to end the museum's city-supplied free water. Eventually a compromise was reached: the institute would charge out-of-town visitors the full amount, but Chicagoans would get a $2 discount. James Cuno, the institute's director, says he's very aware that because museums have obligations...
...They're shapeless and abstract, they bar the sufferer from reading and writing, and when they subside, they often erase our memories of them on the way out. Nevertheless, a literature of migraines has formed over the centuries. The founding father of migraine theory is a Victorian physician named Edward Liveing, who called them "nerve-storms," but references to them can be pried out of Sumerian documents 5,000 years old. The history of their treatment is about as bizarre and useless a medical menagerie as you could wish for. (Two words: beaver testes.) It's only in the past...
Sebelius was introduced by her son, Edward K. Sebelius, who graduates from the Kennedy School today, and who drew laughs from the audience by recalling that his mother’s political successes had frequently coincided with his own academic achievements...