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...crashed the party last year. “It’s pretty opulent by Harvard standards.”Nor is the party at the Harvard Business School a shabby affair. Last year’s shindig featured holiday decor anchored by a reindeer ice sculpture, according to Elizabeth Sweeny, a faculty assistant at the Business School.“I remember thinking initially, that’s like a pretty plastic thing, and oh, wait, no, actually, that’s made of ice,” Sweeny laughed, recalling the moment when she realized that plastic would...
...Rebuilding the Democratic Party” to “Student and Youth Organizing.” Though Nuni said the action groups did not develop concrete ideas as he had hoped they would, he said that the continued discussion was only part of the process. Elizabeth C. McKenna ’08, who worked for the Obama campaign in Ottawa County, Ohio, led the action group on youth organizing. “Why did you come today?,” she asked to spark discussion. “The election was a month ago.” Josh...
...Also out on Wednesday was a report by an oversight board appointed by Congress to evaluate Treasury's economic-rescue efforts. The board, which is headed by Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, criticized Treasury for failing to set up a program to monitor the effectiveness of TARP. In particular, the oversight board said it was important for Treasury to institute a method to determine whether the banks receiving government funds are using the money to make loans. "American taxpayers need to know that their money is having a tangible effect on improving financial stability, credit availability, and the economy...
...Madonna and Martha Stewart love it, as do Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Keanu Reeves and "Junk Bond King" Michael Milken, who organized a Scrabble tournament in the early 1990s at the white-collar prison where he was serving time for securities fraud. Even Queen Elizabeth II is a fan, perhaps in part because her first son was born the very same year that "Scrabble" became a trademark. (That coincidence did not go unnoticed in Britain. An artist commemorated the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and the board game by creating a portrait of the Prince entirely composed...
Fisher is, as she puts it, a "product of Hollywood inbreeding": her mother is Debbie Reynolds, and her father is the singer Eddie Fisher. After her father left Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor, Fisher grew up emotionally dependent on her mother, which presented difficulties because her mother was emotionally dependent on being famous. "I really didn't like sharing her," Fisher writes. "It seemed almost unsanitary."(See the 100 best novels of all time...