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...upon his own experience as well as the talents of the HMC staff.“You don’t expect the quarterback to play every position,” he said.CALLING OFF THE SEARCHFor Harvard, the appointment of a permanent CEO, first reported Friday in the Boston Globe, concludes a protracted search that stretched over 10 months.El-Erian said Harvard first contacted him about taking the position in June.Harvard also offered the job to Bain Capital Managing Director Mark Nunnelly this summer, the Globe reported. Nunnelly did not return a call seeking comment.With no chief named upon Meyer?...
...Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, who teaches Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” declined to comment on SLAM’s new demands, but says that he stands by the statements he made during the 2001 living-wage campaign.Mankiw wrote in a 2001 Boston Globe op-ed that the students who staged a sit-in in Massachusetts Hall that spring were “laudable in their intentions but deficient in their analysis.”“By raising the relative price of unskilled workers, the passage of a living wage shifts...
...Augustine famously declared that "the world is a book"; Haus Publishing obviously agreed. So last month the London-based publisher launched The Armchair Traveller, a series of insightful travelogues documenting personal journeys all over the globe. Each volume, printed on thick, creamy paper, features a foldout map. Otherwise, there's no fixed format for The Armchair Traveller. The first four titles are as different in tone and approach as the smooth, expansive river that dominates Along the Ganges is from the wild Celtic waters in the sailing odyssey Cape Wrath to Finisterre. New works arriving in 2006 serve...
...Darren R. Baker ’06-’08, and David R. Porter ’06-’08—son of Dunster House Masters Roger B. Porter and Anne R. Porter—spent the past two years scattered across the globe, working to bring the uninitiated into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They worked in Chile, Switzerland, Russia, the United States, Argentina, and South Korea, but all of their missions shared one common rule: limited contact with the rest of the world...
...behind the headlines" in layman's terms and focuses on cutting-edge research and how it impacts people's lives, says director Patrice Legro. There are exhibits on global warming, forensics and DNA replication, and even an interactive display called "Lights at Night" that allows visitors to navigate the globe using a joystick, along the way viewing data on energy use and population changes around the planet...