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...movement only grew. When the President later proposed constitutional reforms that among other things would have allowed him to run for re-election indefinitely, more protests followed. At their peak, Sánchez reports, nearly 200,000 people, from union laborers to business executives, participated in a single Caracas march. People across the nation responded to the students' message, and the reform package was narrowly defeated at the polls. "We were victorious," Sánchez says, "which has allowed us to have democracy...
...arranged sale of about-to-fail Bear Stearns in mid-March and its subsequent decision to extend credit to other investment banks over which it has no regulatory say have been major prods to discussion. Both House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson have since suggested that the Fed be given power to snoop around such institutions in search of market-endangering risks. Frank and presidential candidate Barack Obama have also talked of replacing the hodgepodge of federal and state regulatory agencies with a simpler and less loophole-ridden structure--and on March 31, Paulson...
...still unfamiliar choreography of “In the Upper Room.” One of Twyla Tharp’s most grueling and intricate works to date, the piece is slated to be performed during Boston Ballet’s upcoming season. This scene took place on March 19 during the latest installment of Boston Ballet Dance Talks, a collaboration between the Office for the Arts (OFA) at Harvard and Boston’s most famous professional dance company. The program was established when Mikko Nissinen first became artistic director in order to facilitate exchange between Harvard and Boston...
...been addressed. There’s the idea among professors that most matters that are voted upon have already been decided elsewhere.” One issue still unsettled is whether the Faculty meeting scheduled for next Tuesday is in danger of being cancelled, as the January and March meetings were. James H. Stock, the chairman of the economics department, admitted that the question of whether the vote on quorum would achieve a quorum was somewhat worrisome. “Yes, there will be self-evident irony (and perhaps some red faces) if we have a meeting to discuss changing...
...cucumbers, has belonged to the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) since the late 1800s but has not been shown at Harvard until now. Since the MCZ does not have any exhibition space, it has a collaborative relationship with the HMNH, where 50 of the models made their debut on March 21.Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka, a German father and son pair, are better known for their extensive collection of glass flowers, which is on permanent display in the HMNH, which the glass sea creatures predate. Originally, museums and universities could purchase specific models out of Ward’s Catalogue...