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...There were green lights everywhere, but not enough momentum to turn on the afterburners that keep traders moving into the market. That last ingredient showed up when GE (GE) disclosed that S&P had cut its coveted AAA rating to AA+. Some expected the downgrade to be worse or that S&P would indicate it saw more bad news coming for the large conglomerate. That did not happen. So, the news was "better than expected" and whatever gravity had been holding stocks down disappeared. The news about GE shows how perverse the market has become and also serves...
...Staff writer Courtney P. Yadoo can be reached at cyadoo@fas.harvard.edu...
...photo courtesy of L. P., Eliot House Master
...March 12 to March 19, the Brattle Theatre is showing a series of films funded by and promoting the Marshall Plan in Western Europe in a program called “Selling Democracy, Films of the Marshall Plan: 1948-1953.” The event, organized by curator Sandra P. Schulberg and funded by the Goethe-Institut (a German non-profit cultural institute), features 25 short films constructed around the Marshall Plan’s deployment in Europe. The films range widely in genre and rhetorical strategy, from simple narratives about how the Plan’s programs could improve...
...drawn such talent into his apparatus.” McCarthy was not alone in his acclaim for Obama’s Monday announcement, which consisted of an executive order lifting the ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. It also included a memorandum that authorized John P. Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington and a Harvard professor of environmental policy, to issue recommendations on ensuring scientific integrity in governance. Several Harvard professors praised Obama for reopening funding and creating the framework for reforming the role of science in public policy. Manfred...