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...Economics Humor Session is the AEA conference's first attempt to inject a little levity into an annual confab that noneconomists might charitably describe as dry. "You can count on one hand all the funny economists in the world," says R. Preston McAfee, a California Institute of Technology economics professor and Yahoo! research fellow who presided over the evening. But despite their rarity, some of these academics have attracted wide followings--admittedly, among those who can laugh at supply-demand curves. Yoram Bauman, a professor at the University of Washington, bills himself as the World's First and Only Stand...
...home cooking—sustainable, vegetarian cooking adapted from the Harvard University Dining Services menu. Over fifty students requested to participate in the free, limited-space class that was organized by the HUDS Food Literacy Project (FLP) and the Freshman Dean’s Office. HUDS Executive Chef Lawrence R. Kessel and Currier Chef Christopher Tighe demonstrated a variety of cooking techniques that featured ingredients used by dining hall chefs. The menu: delicata squash with browned butter and sage (Harvard consumed 44,000 pounds of squash this semester, according to Kessel), brown rice pancakes with a citrus salsa (dining halls...
...Sean R, Ouellette ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Strauss Hall...
President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly chosen a Harvard Law School classmate, Julius R. Genachowski, to head the Federal Communications Commission, adding yet another Harvard affiliate to the future President’s administration. Genachowski, who was an editor of the Harvard Law Review when Obama was its president, is friendly with the President-elect from their time at the Law School, and overlapped with Obama during their undergraduate years at Columbia. He helped draft the Obama campaign’s technology platform, and worked on Obama’s record-breaking fundraising Web site. As chairman...
...contributed 34 percent of the operating budget of each of Harvard University’s schools in fiscal year 2008. In comparison, 45 percent of Princeton’s projected operating budget for 2008-2009—or $534.6 million—relies on the endowment, said Emily R. Aronson, a media officer in Princeton’s Office of Communications, in an e-mail. Behind the 34 percent average, Harvard’s schools vary in their dependence on endowment funds for operations. Hardest hit have been the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and the Divinity School, both...