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Lascivious and exploitative? Certainly. Creepy? Not for a minute. Like “Utopia, Limited” in general, Morris and Kimmey are always charming. It’s also hard to root against a pair who look so good in formal wear...
...house the “critical mass” of students necessary to make effective freshman living space. Yet Mass. Hall has traditionally been host to a famously tight-knit dorm community. The College has yet to articulate a good reason to evict freshmen from the top floors. Formal plans for the use of the space next year remain foggy, and Gross has said that it might still be used for emergency or upperclassmen overflow housing. Others speculate that it might be used to house the expanding offices of the president and provost. Whatever the plans, the University should think...
...change when Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985. Kasparov defeated Karpov for the world championship later that year. By the end of the 1980s, he says, he regarded himself as part of the democratic opposition to communist rule. Kasparov stayed away from formal politics for much of the post-Soviet period, spending his time writing books and developing a career as a speaker to business and professional audiences. But he was contemplating his future after chess. In 2005, having won the prestigious Linares tournament for the ninth time in 16 years, he announced that...
Document the loan. This is critical. Put the agreement in writing. A business loan should include a formal business plan. Draw up a promissory note and a repayment schedule with penalties. This is when firms like Circle Lending can help. It charges from $200 for a personal loan to $800 for a mortgage, plus a monthly fee of $19. But you get bulletproof documentation for legal and tax purposes and billing and collection services too. It will also restructure the loan if necessary. Such flexibility is hard to find at a bank "and really keeps a loan on track," says...
Lowell House’s historic Russian bells are officially headed back to the motherland, following a formal agreement inked in Moscow Tuesday between Harvard representatives and officials from the Danilov Monastery in the Russian capital. Last week, a delegation from the University visited the Vera Bell Foundry, which was selected to mold the bells that will replace Lowell’s current set, and closed a deal to have the original bells shipped back by the summer of 2008. Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck said that the agreement, which marks the conclusion of negotiations that began last September...