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...bullet-headed dealmaker Paulson was going to squeeze what he wanted out of Congress. Over the last six months, with the help of Tim Geithner at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, he has driven Bear Stearns into the arms of J. P. Morgan at a fire sale price; he has forced the board of Fannie Mae to enable a government takeover even though it meant devastation for shareholders; he has stared down Richard Fuld at Lehman Brothers, who thought he could bluff Paulson into saving the firm; and he has negotiated brutal...
...late as 2005, the payout from the endowment was still under $1 billion. With the University becoming increasingly reliant on the endowment for its operating expenses, Harvard will have to hope its investments can continue to flourish in a precarious market environment. —Staff writer Wyatt P. Gleichauf can be reached at wgleich@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to raise awareness about the impact of global warming. “Al Gore is the posterchild for Harvard’s impact on addressing the challenge of the environment,” said Daniel P. Schrag, head of the Harvard Center for the Environment. “Gore learned about the climate problem at Harvard, and he goes around telling everyone about it.” The speech is part of Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration, which, according to a news release from Faust’s office...
...whole world a pictorial air,” wrote Emerson almost 200 years ago in the essay “Nature.” Fast-forward two centuries and the edgiest avant-garde cinema is just an application of the same principle—at least according to P. Adams Sitney, considered by many to be America’s foremost scholar of avant-garde cinema. Sitney was at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Monday to deliver an illustrated lecture about the philosophy behind American avant-garde film. If anyone knows experimental film, it’s Sitney...
...have deteriorated in the last few weeks. A number of these students, who interned at investment banks such as Lehman Brothers, have seen their full-time offers enter a state of limbo. The Lehman offers extended to seniors who interned last summer are still under deliberation, according to Matthew P. Bresnahan ’09 who interned in Lehman’s Global Consumer/Retail Group. Bresnahan received an offer for full-time employment at the end of his internship. “As of this time, Lehman has not rescinded our offers and has been in close contact with...