Word: reals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...imagine you were also taking a risk with the book that you might discover your faith isn't real, that science proves spirituality is all in your head...
...There is no doubt that there must be layoffs among the administrative staff who support students and faculty, and FAS leaders ought to be applauded for making real reductions. But not all cuts are equal, and FAS should focus on those that have the least impact on students and faculty. A logical way to go about making cuts is to scale back the most recent growth, a principle that would mean reductions in offices like advising, communications, finance, and the divisional deans. While these cuts might not be enough to stave off steps like reducing the shuttle schedule and laying...
...slight obsession with watching episodes of Ivory Tower, Harvard's premiere soap opera. It's quite startling, really, how the show manages to transform such familiar venues like the Winthrop dining hall into foreign places that set the stage for conversations and interactions that don't actually happen in real Harvard life...
...end” if they sell a fixed number of shares that are traded on exchanges, whereas open-end companies, such as mutual funds, collect public money and invest the funds in stocks, bonds, and other securities.Harvard also invests extensively in foreign stocks, private equity, fixed-income bonds, and real assets not listed on the filings. External investment firms currently manage 70 percent of the endowment. According to its 2008 year-end financial report, emerging market equity made up 10 percent of the University’s portfolio and returned 7.6 percent as of June 30, beating the HMC board...
...February, the Dowling Committee made a series of recommendations to reorganize the structure of student-faculty committees by giving them real decision-making power. The reforms would allow the three main college committees to implement proposals that students, faculty, and staff have worked on together. While the school reorganizes its finances, it should also reorganize its bureaucracy. A more inclusive process of decision-making at the college would allow students to have a permanent role in college planning, and, in times of crisis, the administration would not have to completely reinvent a way to communicate with its own students...