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...that disasters are becoming more frequent and more destructive, entire populations are becoming experts in this calculus. Since Hurricane Katrina, people on the Gulf Coast maintain the smartest evacuation packs you will find anywhere: ruthlessly compact, wildly creative. They keep documents sealed in floatable boxes; they have coffee tables that turn into trunks and garbage cans that turn into latrines; they have learned that the only thing more valuable than a hand-crank radio is a hand-crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Save From a Fire | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...says. “I felt that I was coming adrift from my cultural mooring, which created an intense sense of vertigo,”“It’s about fear and control and longing, and explores how people desperately want to connect but maintain life via surface means,” Evans says. “The play confronts how people manage the chaos of life through superficial means, and how the deeper questions of life burst through anyway...

Author: By Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Playwright Spins Social Parable in Providence | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...bidding war over a share in the popular social networking site. Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money and dropped out of Harvard his junior year to run the company full-time. He currently maintains 20 percent ownership of the company, giving him a theoretical net worth of $3 billion. After founding Facebook, Zuckerberg strove to maintain the site’s independence, saying he was not looking for investors. “I would just rather be dependent on ourselves,” Zuckerberg told...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Microsoft Wins Facebook Faceoff | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...bidding war over a share in the popular social networking site. Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money and dropped out of Harvard his junior year to run the company full-time. He currently maintains 20 percent ownership of the company, giving him an estimated net worth of $3 billion. After founding Facebook, Zuckerberg strove to maintain the site’s independence, saying he was not looking for outside investors. “I would just rather be dependent on ourselves,” Zuckerberg told...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A $15 Billion Deal Unites 2 Dropouts | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

Many of HMC’s publicly-traded investments, however, are already made public due to regular disclosures Harvard is forced to make to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). To maintain some secrecy, these disclosures are lagged by about six weeks, though they occur quarterly and are archived in readily accessible databases like the SEC’s online EDGAR database. Any motivated investigator could satiate their curiosity about HMC’s publicly-traded balance sheet two months ago fairly easily. In fact, The Crimson has reported on Harvard’s investments in companies connected to Darfur...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: What Transparency? | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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