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...mattresses, Currier can stand as an equal with such greats as Dunster, Winthrop, and Lowell, whose residents maintain celibacy by sleeping in wobbly bunk beds wedged into walk-through triples. If the river houses hope to maintain their scholarly edge over the formerly unbridled Currierites, they will need to invest in their own spoon-free mattresses. In the meantime, Currier residents must keep in mind: it’s not 33.5 inches thin, its 33.5 inches of discipline and academic promise...
...University of Massachusetts. At the Sept. 7 debate, held at the Kennedy School of Government, State Attorney General Reilly said, “Harvard’s got plenty of money.” “I’m going to put my money, $500 million investing in the University of Massachusetts,” he added. During the debate, Patrick said, “I would take all or much of that money and invest it in centers of excellence in public higher ed, as a way, as I say, to lift the quality of their facilities...
...central banker and I choose to invest my reserves more aggressively and I am successful...[most people] will never know what I did,” he said. But if those investments fail due to a weak market, central bankers face “substantial career risk...
...when discussing “the risks of politicization of the investment process,” Summers made no references to the 2005 divestment campaign that led Harvard to sell its shares of a Chinese oil company, Sinopec, with ties to the Sudanese government. Instead, he mentioned issues like pressure for fund managers to avoid investments in tobacco companies, and suggested that countries could invest in index funds to avoid political problems...
This speech was not the first time that Summers has called for developing countries to invest their reserves more aggressively; he made the same argument in March while travelling through India...