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...along with the low U.S. savings rate, could lead to a “weakening of the U.S. economy.” “The dollar is overvalued and our savings rate has collapsed,” Feldstein said. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics Kenneth S. Rogoff—who also sat on last weekend’s panel, convened by the American Economic Association—said that he largely supported the views voiced by his Harvard colleague. Rogoff wrote in an e-mail after the conference that the U.S. current account...
...Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and a critic of Beijing's human-rights record, told TIME that he intends to hold early hearings on China, on everything from its censorship of the Internet to its policies toward Tibet. "China is thinking in much more active terms about its strategy," says Kenneth Lieberthal of the University of Michigan, who was senior director at the National Security Council Asia desk under President Bill Clinton, "not only regionally, but globally, than it has done in the past. We have seen a sea change in China's fundamental level of confidence...
...that they enable electromagnetic energy to be concentrated into tiny volumes that are only tens of nanometers across, so it will enable you to generate tiny intense spots of light that are far smaller than you can get just with focusing light with a lens,” said Kenneth B. Crozier, assistant professor of electrical engineering and director of the new program. This SP technology can be used to detect the composition of DNA present in samples of air or water. The new system would be more compact and accurate than present biosensing technology, he said, and would...
...Harvard picks its next president, top City of Cambridge officials are calling for a leader attuned to local concerns. The Presidential Search Committee, the nine-member panel tasked with picking Harvard’s next chief, has only personally solicited the views of Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 on what characteristics Harvard’s incoming leader should possess, council members said at yesterday’s meeting. According to Reeves, the mayor’s office received an invitation to a one-on-one meeting with a University official at the Harvard Faculty Club...
Other donors agree that their voices are being heard. Former HAA President Charles L. Brock, a prominent New York lawyer, says that outreach to alumni donors “has been really well orchestrated.” And real estate investor Kenneth G. Bartels ’73 says he “was rather impressed” by the search committee’s outreach effort after he attended a dinner in New York organized by Houghton and search committee member Frances D. Fergusson, a member of the Board of Overseers and a former Vassar College president...