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...divisions to play out politically. But what is being played out in the institution is quite a dangerous energy on the streets. What you want, if possible, is some institutional shape that allows dangerous voltage to enter and work and drive the institution. It doesn’t mean that sectarianism or opposition has gone away in Northern Ireland; it means that there’s a kind of future-seeking possibility in the institution...
...that doesn’t mean we’re backing off [the timeline],” Hyman added. “Harvard is late to the game in bioengineering. But we're at an intellectual inflection point, and this is a great time to get into...
...That doesn't mean China hasn't been nicked already by the crisis. It has. Its banks have an estimated $12 billion in exposure to subprime debt in the U.S., a figure some analysts believe is understated. Its sovereign wealth funds have lost tens of millions of dollars on poorly timed investments in Blackstone, a private-equity group, and Morgan Stanley. And Ping An Insurance, China's second largest insurer, lost 70% on its $2.7 billion investment in Fortis, the Dutch-Belgian financial-services company that collapsed last week...
...dollar and the risk that the U.S. policy response to a slowing economy and investors' aversion to U.S. debt will combine to put pressure on the dollar going forward," says Brad Setser, a former U.S. Treasury Department official now at the Council on Foreign Relations. That would mean further upward pressure on China's currency, the renminbi, at a time when the country's exporters are already hurting from slowing global growth. That in turn could slow growth even further domestically...
...Gates can, too!)This, my friends, is how you cheer. I’ve seen many students coming out to the recent home football matches. They sport their fancy new, ‘Crimson Crazies’ T-shirts, get into the stands, and then…do nothing.I mean, nothing. Like zilch. Minus zilch. Which equals? Zilchy zilch.And I’ve been known to raise my voice a time or two or million to do my best to get the crowd going to support our teams—be it football or field hockey or basketball or women?...