Word: mutuals
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...easy for companies to gin up their equations and then brag about their green cred. But even the most cynical p.r. departments know that that's hardly a long-term solution. Climate change is already having a serious financial impact on business. Julie Gorte, a vice president for the mutual fund Pax World, points out that nearly half of the top-100 companies in the S&P 500 reported that their earnings had been affected by Hurricane Katrina--the kind of superstorm scientists believe will become more common as the globe warms. And as Washington finally begins to consider legislation...
...very different cut were having a remarkably peaceable summit of their own. Russia's Vladimir Putin and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--whose countries have for centuries either butchered each other or, failing that, just eyed each other bitterly across the Caspian Sea--met in Tehran, shook hands, declared mutual admiration and took a few winning photos...
...Despite the enormous stakes involved, Sarkozy himself had other matters to deal with as his fellow citizens hoofed it to work. Shortly after noon, the Elysée announced "separation by mutual consent" of the Sarkozys - a split of their often high-profile but troubled marriage that had been widely expected. Indeed, over the past week, journalists' primary question to the Elysée had shifted from if the Sarkozys would be splitting to when their parting would be finally announced...
...genuinely interested in getting to know their students. Moderator Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a proctor in Hollis Hall and a student at the Law and Business Schools, said he hoped the event would help break down Harvard’s “culture of mutual avoidance.” Seated casually on sofas in the Barker Center, professors shared comical anecdotes about students who came to office hours, recalling one pupil whom Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue nicknamed “The Ocean” for his relentless stream...
...leadership, but also as a symbol of students’ singular role in this community of scholars. With his criticism, Petersen deliberately shunned this historic role—he is only the second student known to have spoken at a Harvard presidential installation—and implicitly rejected the mutual responsibility of the student citizenship he discussed. Some would argue that the installation was exactly the forum for “free inquiry and open debate” that Petersen described. But the hostile criticism that he used in his speech only served to chill future prospects for such engagement...