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...writes in an e-mail. This means that once the payments stop, the access to information stops too. In addition, these electronic resources are licensed for the entire community, which creates even more problems. “This being decentralized Harvard, we then have some fairly complicated committees and oversight structures to allocate costs across all of Harvard’s faculties and schools, since there isn’t a central pool of funds that would cover these sorts of expenses,” Hazen writes. Other problems include preserving digital literature. According to Darnton...
...there's growing urgency to understand how these huge pools of private capital can disrupt markets. In the U.S., California lawmakers and regulators are pushing a proposal that would require larger hedge funds that have fewer than 15 clients to register and to open their records to state oversight. In Europe, the German government is spearheading an inquiry into the subprime crisis by the G7 group of industrialized nations. While hedge funds were not at the center of the credit crunch, "It's the duty of the G7 to look at where there could be black holes in financial markets...
...Collegeboxes. In 2006, the company lost belongings of Harvard undergraduates who had used the service. The University and HSA drew ire from some students when they contracted with the service again this summer. Creamer said after the problems in 2006, HSA changed the administration of the program, realizing more oversight was needed. He said the number of problems was very low this year. “It’s just trying to rebuild our reputation with the campus,” Creamer said. “I think that we really do offer a great service and its bizarre...
...wake of the revelations about the possible immunity offer, which were first reported Monday by the Associated Press, Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that is investigating Blackwater, fired off a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raising a series of issues. As Waxman puts it: "This rash grant of immunity was an egregious misjudgment. It raises serious questions about who conferred the immunity, who approved it at the State Department, and what their motives were." Waxman requests written responses to his queries by no later than noon on Friday, November...
...Department oversees security contractors. Video cameras will photograph all diplomatic convoys in Iraq, including those guarded by contractors, and each convoy will be accompanied by a diplomatic security officer reporting directly to the Department. Following a scathing internal report that found serious lapses in the department's oversight, the head of Diplomatic Security, Richard Griffin, resigned under pressure last week...