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...given away or sold at auction? What will be the balance between gdp growth and the environment? Will politicians continue to undermine an open market? In N.S.W., for example, the state government has granted BlueScope an exemption from its carbon trading scheme or any future carbon tax to help establish a new steel plant at Port Kembla...
...critic Clement Greenberg, traveled to New York in 1968. He studied with the social-realist painter Joe Delaney, and on returning to Sydney the following year, sought to put Delaney's civic-minded ideals to work in the Yellow House, the now legendary artist-run space Gittoes helped establish in 1970 with Martin Sharp. He would leave after two years, but the Yellow House set the scene for his art. Using any medium at his disposal, and world events as his palette, Gittoes' work speaks of the cosmic interconnectedness of things...
...Although it’s unwise for Xiaonei to copy another website, I still think [the site] has good original intentions to establish a platform for college students’ networking,” she said. “Especially, its exclusiveness of users and openness of information distinguishes itself from existing platforms like blogs and college BBS [bulletin board systems...
When Jack R. Meyer, former CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), left the University to establish his own hedge fund with a record-setting $6 billion, investors expected him to continue his string of market-beating performance. This past year, however, showed that even veteran investors can struggle in changing markets. Meyer, who headed HMC from 1990 until September 2005, is credited with growing Harvard’s $4.7 billion endowment to $25.9 billion before his departure. His success at Harvard led the University to initially invest $500 million with Meyer’s new fund—Convexity...
...Dean Drew Gilpin Faust will step into the limelight when she assumes Harvard’s top post on July 1, 2007. But what exactly goes on at her secluded Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study? The Radcliffe Institute is the smallest of the University’s schools; established on October 1, 1999, the Institute is a by-product of the final sublimation of Radcliffe College into Harvard. Dean Faust arrived on the scene in 2001, just as Radcliffe was making the transition from “college with a research institute” into a true Institute for Advanced...