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...April 3 news article "Worker Injured in Fogg Construction" incorrectly stated that the worker injured was with the Swedish construction firm Skanska, based on information from Andrew B. McCabe, the president of Joseph P. McCabe Inc., another construction firm working with Harvard. In fact, the worker injured was working for Preservation Timber Framing, Inc., according to University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall...
...Publicly, Netanyahu continues to take a firm stance, rejecting the idea of an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights in order to achieve peace with Syria. Lieberman talks only of "peace for peace," rather than land for peace. But Netanyahu knows that no peace deal is possible without returning the Syrian territory captured in the war of 1967, and he may be ready to find a formula for its return if Syria is truly ready for a peace deal. Syrian President Assad, having established firm control of the often opaque regime he inherited from his late father Hafez al-Assad...
...Rubenstein didn't deny that easy credit also boosted profits. And at the Buyouts East conference in New York City in late March, I heard another industry veteran, George Siguler of the firm Siguler Guff & Co., paint a grim picture of private-equity returns in a deleveraging and struggling economy. "The available universe of companies that buyouts can buy is essentially mediocre companies, and mediocre companies are going to have a much tougher time," he said...
...From 2000 to 2008, he served on the board of the state-controlled firm Gazprom, Russia's largest company and the world's largest extractor of natural gas. The company has frequently become embroiled in payment disputes with Ukraine, which relies on Gazprom for its gas supply...
...commitments, the figure has been recast as the collated estimate of measures already planned as the world tries to stave off a prolonged downturn, and participants are not being pressurized to agree to specific numbers. The latest leaked draft communiqué, seen by the news agency Reuters, makes no firm pledges on additional fiscal stimulus, saying simply "We are committed to deliver the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth." (See pictures of the G-20 protests...