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...with the Afghanistan Human Rights Organization, has documented in the country's northern provinces over the past year. Witnesses to the child's abduction by a local militia commander have had their rape claim backed up by a nearby hospital, but the district police chief maintains that the child fell on a stick. The chief's objectivity in the matter, however, is hardly assured, given that he once worked with the militia commander...
...overall value of Harvard’s publicly traded equities fell from $2.8 billion in September to only $571 million in January, according to a required quarterly disclosure report released Tuesday night by the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...favorite quickie measure of financial journalists - the performance of the stock market - he was a complete flop. The S&P 500 fell almost 5% over the course of the day, with the sharpest drop coming just as Geithner began his speech in the Cash Room of the Treasury Building. (See the worst business deals...
...troubled times like these is to instill confidence. Geithner's predecessor, Hank Paulson, was a believer in doing so by means of bold statements. That served him well for a while, but when the crazy events of the fall made Paulson repeatedly eat his words, confidence in his leadership fell quickly. It is always a mistake, Geithner's mentor (and Obama's top economic adviser) Larry Summers said in October, to try to "infuse confidence through words rather [than] through deeds...
...said. After Sunday’s meeting, UC members were required to send out e-mails to their house-lists summarizing the UC general meeting—a practice that was commonplace when Ryan A. Petersen ’08 served as president of the council, but which fell-off during the subsequent presidency of Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. “I think that the UC can always do a better job of communicating. It is a difficult job to tackle,” Sundquist said of the outreach effort. “It is hard...