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...Massachusetts Republican party is “alive and well” and “poised to take the governorship in two years,” said former Massachusetts Governor A. Paul Cellucci last night while speaking for a joint event held by the Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard Law Republicans. Cellucci, who is also the former U.S. ambassador to Canada, spoke for a little over an hour in Emerson Hall in an event attended by students from colleges throughout the Boston area. His remarks hit on the current presidential race, the state of the Massachusetts Republican party...
...most experienced fund managers wince. But Acumen, it seems, weathered the storm with a smile on their face. “We had a very, very good day,” said Vikram R. Modi ’09, co-president of the group. Modi said that the group held short positions on several baskets of securities that contained industries affected by the market plunge on Monday. This instance of short selling—a strategy that allows traders to profit from the decline in the price of a stock—is not covered under a recent...
...third annual Stem Cell Summit held at the Medical School last week, University President Drew G. Faust cited four papers published this summer as evidence of the progress made at a time when federal funding for embryonic research has been constrained by a 2001 order by President Bush...
This year’s ceremony was held last Thursday, and Frenk’s fellow award recipients included Jennifer and Peter Buffett, chairs of the NoVo Foundation; Neville Isdell, chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Company; and Xiaoyi Liao, founder of Beijing Global Village, China’s first green community...
...shot to the top of the paper’s “most e-mailed” list in part because of his repeated references to the University. “The name Harvard is synonymous with excellence,” Winerip said. “Harvard is held maybe to a higher standard and is questioned more often.” Indeed, the study seems to validate the Harvard Kennedy School’s recent decision to rebrand itself. Known as the Kennedy School of Government until last spring, the public policy and administration changed its shorthand...