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There are some items that we Harvard folk just can't get enough of. The numbers are astounding, maybe even revolting to the weak of tray and the faint of stomach. Who knew we liked burgers so much? Their untouchable status as the most popular item proves the maxim: "When in doubt, do the option." Here are some of the most frequently gobbled items...
...nice, cushy job, living the good life. Frank Jerome Columbus, Indiana BARINGS' COLLAPSE CANNOT BE BLAMED solely on derivatives. A system that permits a trader any access, however limited, to the back-office process (settlement, accounting, mark to market) is a blueprint for disaster. No maxim is more fundamental for a financial institution. Mark Martinelli Mahwah, New Jersey WHAT A VIVID LESSON YOUR ARTICLE teaches the world's newly freed people who are struggling to embrace the wonders of free enterprise. Santford W. Martin Atlanta...
...dean will have to consider a question that has in the past put HBS at odds with smaller schools at the University. Should HBS, with its wealthy alumni network, raise funds for poorer schools at the University as well? Harvard schools have traditionally relied on the maxim, "every tub on its own bottom." President Rudenstine has asked that University schools work closer together for the multi-million dollar capital campaign...
...communist saw holds that capitalists will gladly sell the rope that can be used to hang them. Fidel Castro is trying to adapt that maxim to secure a financial lifeline from the U.S. It is an article of faith in Havana that if only Washington would lift the 33-year-old trade embargo, a vast infusion of American cash would rescue Cuba's economy. Last summer Castro tried to force the Clinton Administration into negotiations about improving ties by allowing more than 33,000 Cubans to flee the island for the U.S. The ploy did not work; the U.S. still...
Pentagon officials interpreted his conversion as a classic illustration of the maxim: "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em." Constant, they said, had turned to American authorities after the raid with an offer to help them damp down violence, and they had accepted. Fritz Joseph, a FRAPH member who has gone into hiding, has a less charitable interpretation. Referring to Constant and Michel Francois, the police chief who has fled into exile in the Dominican Republic, Joseph says, "They both cut deals for themselves and left everyone else who worked with them without protection...