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...Your cover story made serious reading. But the present downturn could be a blessing in disguise for some countries, since highly skilled professional talents can transfer their skills and become useful in their often poorer home countries. Though their salaries may not be as good as the previous jobs they held, they might find more security in the comfort of the familiar rather than in an uncertain position in an alien land, and both they and the countries that welcome them back will benefit. Philip Verghese, Secunderabad, India...
...though, refuses to go after the former government and its deposed dictator. "Few have been tortured, or brutalized, as much as I have," he says. But Nasheed insists he wants civil institutions to mature, and for an independent judiciary, not a new President, to judge the excesses of the previous 30 years. "Establishing real democracy here," says Nasheed, "will be the greatest justice...
...tumultuous and markedly changed financial landscape. University officials say they have been planning for a total 30 percent drop in the endowment by the end of the current fiscal year.Despite an increase in public equity holdings to almost $772 million by March 31, up from $571 million in the previous quarter, the University has still dramatically reduced its publicly traded equities portfolio, which was valued at almost $2.9 billion as late as last September. Harvard appears to have redirected many of its investments after those sales, with the number of reported holding entries increasing from 71 to 99, two-thirds...
...eighth in the final yesterday, running the event in 9:11.98, the quad group of seniors Jan Ng and Aishlinn O’Callaghan, sophomore Thea Lee, and freshman Meghan Looney set a new school record in its preliminary heat. Its time of 8:51.13 on Saturday bested the previous school record of 8:52.52, set in 2006 by a group that included Ng and O’Callaghan as freshman. Also highlighting the weekend, sophomore Eric Clayman notched a seventh-place hammer toss of 59.27 meters, earning him a bid to the NCAA Regionals taking place in two weeks...
...Many of the stories we have heard address similar situations: A woman who lives in the Quad is ready to go home. She has missed the 2:45 a.m. shuttle, and the next does not come until 3:15 a.m. From previous experience, she knows that the evening van service will tell her to wait for the next shuttle. When weighing her options, she cannot just walk home, but among her choices is an offer from a male who says she can wait for the shuttle in his room. The offer is probably innocent, and the woman probably gets...