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Kennedy School Professor Robert D. Putnam, an authority on social capital best known for his essay “Bowling Alone,” will gain a hand with his research on civic involvement, thanks to a grant given to the Kennedy School of Government??s Saguaro Seminar, by the Corporation for National and Community Service...
...bank woes from the backs of taxpayers and dump them right back from where they came. If the troubled-securities bought by the Treasury Department aren’t worth what the Treasury paid for them, the president must submit a plan to use new taxes to recover the government??s losses from the finance industry. With so many demanding a pound of flesh from the big banks, lawmakers may just be pushing Wall Street’s medicine five years down the road. But that’s a worry for the Class...
...this weekend that will maintain current levels of funding for financial aid and research through March, a move that will impinge on higher education support due to the current rapid rise in inflation. This financial support may be further reduced if spending cuts arise as a result of the government??s proposed bailout package, which the House rejected yesterday...
...potentially speedier approval process for campus construction. PIM(P)co MY BAILOUT Less than a year after leaving Harvard to return to a wealthy private financial fund, Mohamed A. El-Erian said in an interview with Reuters that his $812-billion firm would offer to manage part of the government??s proposed $700-billion bailout package for no fee. El-Erian—who managed Harvard’s now-$36.9 billion endowment from 2006 until late last year—currently serves as chief executive of California-based PIMCO, one of the world’s largest...
...really sure where this ‘real world’ is,” he says. “Where I’ve been, it’s never there. The government??s not the real world, the university community’s not the real world, the business community’s not the real world. I’m not quite sure where this real world is that people keep talking about...