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...reason. There are certain pieces of information that one is happy to share with one’s friends, but not with one’s parents. Unfortunately, the arrival of parents on Facebook is only the most obvious manifestation of its growing lack of privacy. Facebook, as we knew it, is dying; by expanding into a global networking site for people of all ages, it has diverged from its original purpose as an online socializing hub for students...
...Walker, who called criticism of Harvard’s December debt issuance unfair and said the current economic crisis is a black swan. “There was tremendous uncertainty [in the fall] with Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and AIG, and I don’t think anybody knew what was going to happen.”John F. Flahive, a vice president at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which purchased $10 million of Harvard’s tax-exempt bonds, said that he does not think the bonds’ rates were inappropriate, nor does he think that the University?...
...trying to pretend I’m omniscient or anything, but a lot of people who were quantitative traders, in the back of our minds, we knew a lot of these models were just that: guestimates,” Mack says. “I have mixed feelings, on the one hand, I wasn’t crazy, I knew what I was talking about. But maybe if more and more people had spoken up, the economy wouldn?...
...scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, drew attention last week when he agreed with Pope Benedict XVI’s statement that the answer to the African AIDS crisis lies in the promotion of faithful partnerships rather than increasing the availability of condoms. “I knew that if I agreed with anything the Pope said it would cause a fire-storm,” said Green. “I took the opportunity to cause an uproar and focus on the evidence.” Citing several studies published in peer-reviewed journals since 2004, Green...
Until now, neither had really put together the type of season he knew he was capable of producing. But while the players have both made huge strides this year, their improvements have been the result of two very different approaches...