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...recent book, The Warhol Economy, by Elizabeth Currid, a young social scientist. Currid spent months interviewing people in the creative professions, with a heavy emphasis on fashion, music and other pop-oriented fields. She concludes that "cultural producers rely heavily on their social lives to advance their careers, obtain jobs and generate value for their goods...
...warning about the country’s security. For Harvard students, the U.S. warning could spell a change in travel plans. Elizabeth S. Nowak ’10, who had planned to travel to Kenya over the summer, was forced to cancel her trip because she could not obtain funding through the Office of Career Services (OCS). According to OCS policy, travel in countries on the State Department’s list is not eligible for Harvard funding. “I understand the OCS’s motives, but at the same time it is disheartening...
...suit claims that the VA violates the constitutional rights of PTSD victims by denying them medical care and benefits as well as the power to hire outside attorneys and obtain records in their disability petitions. Proponents of the suit point out that the VA's immense backlog of claims leads to delays in treatment, often compounding PTSD symptoms, contributing to substance abuse and suicide...
Under the current electronic privacy policy, administrators may obtain information about the content of student data, including e-mail, as well as the time, date, and size of a message without notifying the student under investigation...
...banks and other financial-services companies starved for cash by the subprime-credit crises, where they obtain bailout money is less important than the fact that it's available at all. Just ask investors in Citigroup or UBS. The big Swiss bank had to take a $10 billion write-down--it had already taken a $4.4 billion hit--on the value of its "super-senior" subprime portfolio, those formerly top-rated bonds. To restore its capital base, UBS sold $8.9 billion in convertible notes to the Government of Singapore Investment Corp. (GIC) and an additional $1.8 billion...