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Whether the first-year President was truly indignant about the headline emblazoned on the front page of her morning newspaper or whether her reaction was merely an attempt at damage control is difficult to discern. Regardless, Drew G. Faust, in a break with her usual public restraint, wasted no time in quashing the report.“Harvard is not ‘rethinking’ Allston,” she wrote that December morning in 2007 when the article was published. “I am unequivocally committed to moving aggressively and ambitiously forward, and to making our unfolding...
...this is a greater need for modern financial training and knowledge,” he says. “We should be teaching more about modern finance and these tools, not less.”HARD TO STUDYWhile economists disagree over whether anyone could have predicted the snowball reactions of the financial markets, they acknowledge that such large and calamitous events are relatively unstudied.Some say the scant attention paid to market meltdowns was a natural product of their infrequency, despite their outsized ramifications. The last systemic market failure—the events precipitating the Great Depression—has been...
...with Hammonds and Smith (Flores estimates that she has had five), Flores and UC Vice President Kia J. McLeod ’10 help the deans understand student concerns, says Paul J. McLoughlin, assistant dean of the College. “As with anybody, they are guessing [what the reaction will be] for an entire student population,” he says.Their positions afford Flores and McLeod some access to College decision makers, if not decision making, but even that is limited in scope—even more so for decisions of this magnitude.While community-wide e-mails such...
...computers and wires instead of mechanics and hydraulics to control a plane's flight. Electronic systems are more reliable than mechanical processes but are prone to software errors that can't always be anticipated. "There could be some other sequence of events that could cause another bad software reaction," says Weber...
However, not all reaction to the oath has been positive. On several online forums, posters have argued that the oath represents empty rhetoric...