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...Silvers said some of the people the panel had talked to complained that the continued weakness of a number of the nation's largest banks was hurting the economy. He asked Geithner if he thought "zombie" banks were a problem. Geithner noted specifically that he didn't think Citigroup was a "zombie." He added that the fact that many of the banks have been able to raise private capital shows that TARP has improved their prospects...
...prize excellence of all kinds… part of the American college experience is athletics; it’s a form of excellence. In many communities students can’t afford a cello [for example] but have sports programs… We have the largest number of intercollegiate sports – it has been a way to reach out to students who would not have been able to come to Harvard otherwise, if you look at student athletes later in life it’s amazing what they have done...
Despite the losses—which were more than the total endowments of any other schools except Yale, Princeton, and Stanford—Harvard’s endowment remains the largest in higher education...
...extreme uncertainty in our economy and a level of volatility and dysfunction in many types of investments that went well beyond all previous experience,” wrote Mendillo, who took the helm at HMC only last summer. The decline—the largest ever experienced at HMC, which manages Harvard’s endowment—was not unexpected, and administrators have been planning for a 30 percent decline since December. Many peer institutions have been anticipating similar losses...
...people within the tuna industry see pressure tactics, rather than courage, at work. "The lobby formed by WWF, Greenpeace and others is too strong to resist," says David Martínez Cañabate, adjunct director for the Ricardo Fuentes Group, Spain's largest tuna farming and distribution company. "We put so much money and effort into coming up with a recovery plan within ICCAT, and it was producing results. But now it means nothing. Because according to those groups, the only option is to close the fishery - they won't consider other options." (Watch a video of a bluefin...