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...former co-workers at the State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund), where Thomas worked as a claims adjuster, the charges against him seem unfathomable. "This is certainly not the man that we knew. The man that we engaged with was always very pleasant, very personable. We never ever saw him lose his temper. Never. He always had a pleasant smile, always had a kind word," says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who retired from State Fund last December and is president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. Hutchinson says Thomas was married with children. "I knew [Thomas] was quite...
...England, attended Corpus Christi College at Oxford for his undergraduate years and Yale for his Ph.D. From 1984 to 1994 he taught at Princeton, before coming to Harvard. Campbell also serves on Harvard’s Debt-Asset Management Committee and is a partner at the hedge-fund Arrowstreet Capital, L.P. Professor N. Gregory Mankiw, who was on the hiring committee that chose Campbell in the early 1990s, announced Campbell’s appointment on his blog. “I have long thought that my biggest contribution to Harvard was being part of the team that recruited John...
...Task Force wanted art to be a “major part of the university, as opposed to being on the fringe.” Harvard, Pecci believes, has a duty as a wealthy institution to act as a patron for the arts. “It needs to fund that which is pushing boundaries and allow for artists to take risks,” he says. For Pecci, such risks are important to theater as it explores the intersections between play and performance. “What a script really is are instructions for an event—something...
...Student Events Fund is an outstanding program. It allows students who are on financial aid to buy tickets to campus events that they otherwise could not afford and brings the Harvard community closer together by allowing all a chance to spend time together regardless of financial means. The new SEF website, much simpler to navigate, now makes it even easier for students to participate...
...when the financial crisis hit, these darlings of international capitalism found their open economies amongst the most vulnerable. The International Monetary Fund - recently involved in bailouts for Hungary, Latvia and Ukraine - now forecasts a 3.7% drop in GDP for the central and eastern European region for 2009. The downturn has brought down governments in Latvia and Hungary, and a prolonged crisis could translate into further political instability. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...