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Anyone who feels as though there's been no way to make money in the stock market this year hasn't heard of Emergent BioSolutions. While broad indexes are off some 40% since Jan. 1, Emergent, which makes anthrax vaccines and is broadening into flu shots, is up 376%, to $24.11. Emergent is the top-returning stock in 2008 (through Dec. 12), according to an analysis done for TIME by Thomson Reuters Datastream. And Emergent isn't the only company that's been pleasing shareholders. This probably isn't going to make you feel any better about your brokerage account...
...Jan. 1, the actuarial value of the assets in the pension fund was $766 million, giving Cambridge’s pension plan a funded ratio of 91.96 percent—just above the 90 percent ratio that many experts say is financially responsible. By comparison, Boston’s funded ratio in 2006 was only 64.40 percent, or well below the 80 percent that is generally considered “at-risk...
...This is never something that she presented as an achievement or as an issue...It was remarkable that she could blaze so many trails without ever posturing as a pioneer,” said classics professor Jan M. Ziolkowski, director of Harvard’s research center Dumbarton Oaks, which Laiou led for nine years. “She just bolted forward on the basis of her knowledge, intelligence, views, and talents...
...Jan Zilinsky ’09, a Crimson editorial writer, is an economics concentrator in Mather House...
...Jan. 20, millions of Americans will be glued to their television sets, watching the historic inauguration of Barack Obama. Still others will have the privilege of attending the ceremony live. But for a good number of Harvard undergrads—even those with tickets to the event—Jan. 20 will just be yet another day of final examinations. While many students have petitioned to have exams moved in light of the presidential inauguration, exams should be taken as normal. While it is unfortunate that there are some students who wish to attend the inauguration of president-elect Barack...