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Traditionally, gold has been a store of value when citizens do not trust their government politically or economically. In Asia, ordinary people -not investors by any means - historically have held tremendous amounts of gold in jewelry. Now that same concept has extended to more-sophisticated investors, who hold gold not in jewelry but in bars and derivative contracts...
Friedrich assumes a post similar to the one formerly held by Paul J. McLoughlin II, who was promoted to the position of Assistant Dean of Harvard College and Senior Aide to the Dean of Harvard College last September...
...College Events Board and the Harvard Concert Commission announced that Ratatat and Sarah Bareilles would be performing for this year’s Yardfest, an annual debate immediately took over House email lists and dining hall chatter. Some agreed with the picks, and some paid no attention, but naysayers held up the announcement as the most recent example of the CEB’s ineptitude. It seems crazy, the argument goes, that if Brown can get Nas and Of Montreal for their Spring Weekend, Harvard must settle for Third Eye Blind and Gavin DeGraw (and when given the opportunity...
...preceding weeks, Seattle journalists had struggled to make sense of the changes buffeting their profession. Two forums were held, one at the University of Washington titled "Journalism on the Brink" and another at city hall called "A No-Newspaper Town?" Attendees were encouraged to Twitter throughout the meetings, where the conversation was sprinkled with emerging-media jargon about micropayments, super-local news, journalism-as-conversation and the demise of the media as gatekeeper. But only about 40 of the 170 people currently employed by the city's oldest paper will be joining the brave new world at its Web-only...
...Many officials, all the way up to the Chancellor, have insisted that the Fritzl case is an isolated affair, although one of the chief investigators in the case has expressed a belief that there may be other cellars in Austria where captives are being held...