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...effort to free international trade and fund postwar reconstruction, the member states agreed to fix their exchange rates by tying their currencies to the U.S. dollar. American politicians, meanwhile, assured the rest of the world that its currency was dependable by linking the U.S. dollar to gold; $1 equaled 35 oz. of bullion. Nations also agreed to buy and sell U.S. dollars to keep their currencies within 1% of the fixed rate. And thus the golden age of the U.S. dollar began...
Google, whose announcement of the grant is part of the company’s effort to facilitate third-world development, cited the Harvard team’s innovation in developing metrics to deal with such intangibles as bargaining ability, number-sense, and money management skills...
...state’s Department of Transitional Assistance has placed families without homes in motels. The program was phased out in 2004 but reinstated in 2007 as demand for shelters exceeded supply due to the nationwide economic downturn. The Council’s consideration of homelessness follows an effort by Mass. Governor Deval Patrick to end family homelessness and cut the state’s costs by using a preventive approach. But councillors said they thought the problem would only get worse in the near future, citing the state’s budgetary woes and Question 1, a ballot initiative...
...Thankfully, Harvard has stuck with its core business as a place of education and decided to make cutting GHG emissions a campus-wide social effort to some extent, not just one for engineers and construction workers. However, in order to make environmentalism a unifying social cause on campus, and ingrain behavior that reduces GHG emissions, Harvard will have to take steps to strengthen and expand its current environmental outreach efforts...
...Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), led by Benjamin Zander, stirred the Sanders Theatre crowd Wednesday night with an inconsistent but lively and competent performance of works by Bartók, Saint-Saëns, and Dvorak, demonstrating the classical music world’s continuing effort to resist the genre’s arguable decline.The concert—which was the BPO’s first of the season—was part of the “Discovery Series,” a group of concerts designed to broaden classical music’s audience. The premise of the series...