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Richard D. Kadison, the chief of mental health at Harvard University Health Services, said yesterday that he is familiar with the work of the Jed Foundation, and echoed the organization’s emphasis on holistic treatment of student distress issues to prevent suicide and student violence...
That's the optimistic view - and, for now, the dominant view of the Fed, most economists believe. But lurking not far from the surface of economic policymakers' deliberations these days is the dreaded d word: deflation. "Sure, we're very cognizant of it," one source familiar with Fed's thinking on the matter told TIME this week. "We don't think we're there yet, but we're very aware of the possibility." So is Wall Street. At Merrill Lynch, chief investment strategist Richard Bernstein issued a report within hours of Barack Obama's election, listing three developments for investors...
This sort of thinking is already familiar to much of corporate America. For globalized companies, risk comes from all directions--contaminated products from China, terrorist attacks on facilities in the Middle East, Katrina- and Ike-size weather events at home--which has led to the rise of what the consultants call enterprise risk management. The level of risk a company is willing to take is articulated by the board of directors, and then measures of risk taken are gathered and fed up to the highest levels of management...
Even the least literary among the Harvard set are likely to be familiar with the wildly successful novel-turned-phenomenon “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.” Few, however, know as much about the man behind the legend, Gregory Maguire. When the fantasy-fiction author made a pit stop at the Harvard Book Store to chat about his new venture into Oz, “A Lion Among Men,” FM took the opportunity to sit down and chat about the perks and pitfalls of writing...
...become part of the familiar story now, repeated so often we can barely hear it, but anyone who steps out of the U.S. today, in any direction, quickly sees that the American Century has become the Global Century and that where a generation ago much of the globe was trying to look like America, now it's America that needs to get in tune with the rest of the globe. The very presence of someone like Obama shows this is possible. But the story of the 21st century so far has been of a fast-moving train that...