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...There have been some economic reports in recent weeks suggesting that the pace of the downturn has eased: consumer spending has stopped falling, the housing market has begun showing some signs of bouncing along a bottom (not so much in prices yet as in sales volume), and manufacturing's free fall has moderated somewhat. The stock market has of course been on a tear, with the S&P 500 index up 20% since early March. But while the market is a leading indicator, it can be an extremely unreliable...
...suffered recently due to endowment losses and stress in the debt and swap markets. In December and January, Harvard completed $2.5 billion in bond sales to guarantee cash flexibility and refinance risky variable rate debt.According to the report, disruptions in the tax-exempt variable rate debt markets last fall “increased the perceived risk that Harvard could experience a failed remarketing of its debt.” While no such failure occurred, the disruptions hampered the University’s liquidity position by forcing it to keep cash on hand to meet possible calls on its variable rate...
...smoky gallery, the artist and the scientist unleashed “Le Whif” onto the world. “Orange or Gingerbread?” they asked. Which is more fantastical: the existence of inhalable chocolate or the implausible story behind it?It all started in the fall of 2007 when my former roommate Larissa H. Zhou ’10, the physics concentrator, and Trevor J. Martin ’10, the artist, signed up for Professor David Edwards’ class Engineering Sciences 147: “Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences...
...This fall, he will leave Columbia, where he as taught for almost three decades, to take over as chair of Harvard’s Department of Literature and Comparative Literature. He says he hopes to encourage concentrators to study world languages and to increase the offerings of world literature courses to undergraduates...
...decisive new juncture.” According to Owen, the graduate program in comparative literature merged with the undergraduate concentration in literature three years ago, while he was still chair. Prior to the merger, the two programs had no tenure-track faculty of their own. In the fall, there will be four...