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...move that will save tens of thousands of dollars, the course catalog, student and faculty handbooks, and Q guide will no longer be published in print. Beginning this fall, they will only be available online, the University announced in a statement yesterday. The initiative will not only shave costs and eliminate waste in a time of financial duress but will offer a flexibility unseen in printed materials like the course catalog, which “is significantly out-of-date before the first copy rolls off the press,” Barry Kane, registrar of the Faculty of Arts...
...what happens if the investments we are making now start to trade in the wrong direction?" "What happens if the assumptions that led us to make ludicrous amounts of money this year turn out to be wrong next year?" It turns out that there was no "Worst Case Scenario Handbook" for running big banks. It might have saved investors and the government a trillion dollars or more. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...Harvard’s support for entrepreneurship on campus is a relatively recent development. It has been rumored that Harvard College once had a loose and often unenforced rule that students were prohibited from running businesses out of their dorm rooms. However, the current FAS Handbook for Students vaguely states that students are allowed to partake in “modest levels of business activities on campus,” provided that they do not violate other College rules regarding residential life or use of Harvard’s name and resources...
...There’s a quote in the old Masters handbook that says something to the effect of: Allow something once, and it’s precedent. Allow it twice, and it’s tradition. I suppose this would be classified as a tradition,” said former HoCo Chair Omar Abdelsamad...
Creating the illusion of fantastic success, of course, is Chapter 1 in the Scammer's Handbook. But many among the most egregious alleged billionaire bamboozlers, like R. Allen Stanford and Bernie Madoff, are taking the art of thievery to the next level. Some don't even bother opening an investor account when new monies come in; they just go shopping. It's enough to make Gordon ("Greed is good") Gecko blush. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...