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...lieutenant governor’s race, three-term Worcester Mayor Timothy P. Murray won easily with 43 percent, defeating Brookline Selectman Deborah Goldberg and entrepreneur Andrea C. Silbert ’86, who took 34 and 23 percent respectively...
...percent return and the 21.1 percent return achieved in 2004. While few peer universities have released their endowment figures for fiscal year 2006, Stanford reported a 19.4 percent return for the same period, beating Harvard’s by 2.7 percentage points. Both universities handily outpaced the S&P 500 index, which registered an 8.5 percent return over the same period. “The most important issue is, did we meet the University’s target, which is to maintain the value of the endowment and take into account distributions and inflation?” El-Erian said...
...longer true that “My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Me Nine Pickles,” as the old mnemonic device goes. But even though Pluto has been officially demoted, the skies have just revealed two new planets to Harvard astronomers. The widely-publicized HAT-P-1, identified last week by scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), is the largest planet ever detected. But researchers at the same center have also found another so-called “hot Jupiter”—a significant discovery in its own right. Both breakthroughs came...
...marshmallow. A team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirmed last week the existence of the largest planet detected and the lightest in weight for a planet of its size. Using Hungarian-designed amateur telescopes, Harvard astronomer Gaspar Bakos led his group in the discovery of HAT-P-1, which stands for “the first planet detected by a Hungarian Automated Telescope.” With four-inch apertures, these miniature telescopes, some of the smallest in the world, are “just off-the-shelf big telephoto lenses,” said team member Robert...
...Lubin said. ”They’re improving campus, so they have to do that.” Aside from students’ personal workout schedules, the renovations will affect Intramural (IM) competition schedules, especially winter and spring sports. MAC Manager of Recreational Services Jake P. Olkkola said that IM schedules would be adjusted to accommodate the MAC’s closing. For example, winter basketball would instead be played in the fall. “We don’t want to let anyone miss out on the IM experience since we think it?...