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...been at Harvard in this position for less than a year—she took up the post on July 1, right before markets began plummeting—Mendillo has no shortage of experience managing the University’s endowment. She spent 15 years at HMC working on nearly every asset class before embarking on her Wellesley hiatus, where she built the school’s investment office and re-engineered its portfolio. “Wellesley’s in a very good position thanks to Jane’s work,” says Deborah F. Kuenstner...
...deans are also keenly aware that we must be strategic, protecting essential investments, such as financial aid, and even growing in a small number of critically important areas. Indeed, several University-wide committees have been focused on how we can make Harvard stronger in priority areas in the near term, albeit with smaller investments than we would make in other times. These committees, made up of faculty members and deans, include the Harvard University Committee on Science and Engineering, the University Planning Committee on Social Sciences, and the University Library Task Force...
...Among that list, Jackson, Manning, and Minow have risen to the top. Wilkins may also be a top candidate, but opinions among the faculty vary about whether he should be included on the list of most likely candidates. Faculty members were, however, in near unanimity in naming Jackson, Manning, and Minow as frontrunners...
...leave Harvard, I leave with the love of a child for his imperfect parent, with the knowledge that the parent’s virtues and imperfections are the foundations of my own. I love Harvard, will always love Harvard, and will fight—from near or far-- to make it a better place. And I thank you--my teachers, students, colleagues, and staff--for being the trellis of my growth and the flowering vines on my trellis...
...would give them a theoretically filibuster-proof majority - a possibility that has helped both sides raise money in recent weeks. "The stakes have never been this high," Coleman wrote in his last fundraising plea. "Our ability to overturn this flawed recount process - and preserve checks and balances against the near total control of our government by Obama and the Democrats - rests in your hands." Likewise, the liberal group MoveOn.org in April started a "Dollar a Day to Make Norm Go Away" fund. "We're just one Senator short of 60 - enough votes to keep Republicans from blocking President Obama...