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...pointed to both his Pentagon experience and his academic credentials as key assets he will bring to the job. Former deputy secretary of defense John P. White—who is now a lecturer at the Kennedy School—met Carter during their White House years in the mid-1990s, and expressed his enthusiasm for the pick in an interview yesterday. White explained that the Department of Defense needs someone in the top acquisition post who not only understands how to drive the policies that guide the nation’s acquisition capabilities, but also possesses...
...first choice from almost the beginning of the selection process because of the quality of the libretto, the varied and interesting storyline, and the attractiveness of the music.” “The Rake’s Progress” is based on a series of mid-18th century paintings by William Hogarth that Stravinsky viewed in Chicago. Stravinsky collaborated with two poets, W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, to develop the drawings into an operatic plot line. Considering that the DHO only performs operas in English, stage director Victoria J. Crutchfield ’10 said...
...Stock has not been the only professor to acknowledge the prudence of meeting a slow economy with increased hiring efforts. At a meeting of the Faculty in mid-November, Xiao-Li Meng, the chair of the statistics department, was greeted with thunderous applause after standing to argue that Harvard could take advantage of the financial struggles of other universities by increasing its searches...
...tuna are becoming increasingly rare. An influential study published in 2006 in the journal Science predicted that if fishing around the world continued at its present pace, fish stocks would begin to decline, resulting in the final global collapse of wild fisheries, which could possibly happen as soon as mid-century...
...more meaningful way of life." Searching for meaning through the fashions of a doomed European aristocracy may be a form of protest against a business-driven contemporary Japanese culture, but it's certainly made healthy profits for the Jesus Diamante label. Today, the company runs four stores; by mid-2007 it had earned more than $14 million from selling dresses that run from $500 to $600 each and coats that cost up to $1,500. The average client spends $1,000 a month in support of her princess habit - but some spend as much as $4,000 a month. Most...