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...conditions in Afgooye are some of the worst I have ever seen. I couldn't see a single shelter fit for human beings, and thousands of people have nothing to sleep under or protect them from the searing heat and heavy rains. I saw sick children lying on the floor with diarrhea and disease. I saw a young girl who had been shot in the head, fleeing with her family. People told me they expect the situation to get even worse in the next few weeks." (See pictures of the pirates of Somalia...
...near Cosby after he had been shot, according to Middlesex County District Attorney Gerard T. Leone, Jr. ’85. The Crimson reported last month that Cosby has been linked to drug sales to Harvard students.In interviews with The Crimson, those who shared a floor with Cosby and his mother shed some light on the victim himself, painting a picture of a boy always willing to lend a hand, often offering to help his neighbors carry the groceries.“He was a mama’s boy,” Denise Cosby said, adding that...
...woman whose shoulders bear the burden of steering higher education’s grandest endowment through the most debilitating financial crisis in a half-century, Jane L. Mendillo cuts a decidedly unassuming figure.She speaks with measured confidence but betrays no ostentation. Her office, situated on the 16th floor of the Boston Federal Reserve Building, is adorned with little more than a few family photographs, three flat-panel monitors sitting atop her desk, and a comfortable view of Boston Harbor.But beneath her unobtrusive exterior, Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company, harbors a wealth of investment knowledge. She commands the respect...
...classroom. Sabrina Sadique, another of Carpio’s TFs, also emphasized Carpio’s unique approach to classroom participation as a teaching strength. Sadique said that Carpio often spends the first 20-25 minutes of an hour-long class lecturing on a text and then opens the floor for discussion among her students. For students used to only talking in section, this is a welcome surprise, said Sadique. Carpio has also been involved in several students groups in her time at Harvard. She has served as the faculty advisor both for Black Community and Student Theater, a campus...
...will combine many different tools—one part intuition, one part historical data, and one part mathematical modeling—to come up with good decisions,” Laibson says.In practice, though, moving entirely to the “common sense” approach on the trading floor is far from a panacea for the chaos wreaked by unusual events.Models may be imperfect, but so is human judgment. And firms trading thousands of different securities each day find it impossible to hire the manpower necessary to scrutinize each trade.“The trouble with common sense...