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...partnership that Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (a pioneering figure in the conservative, Muslim Arabian Peninsula) has established with Kerzner - a famously hard-working, hard-partying casino mogul who is Jewish. Starting more than a decade ago, their affiliation has matured into a full-fledged business relationship that seeks opportunities far beyond Dubai. In 2006, Istithmar, another of the "Dubai Inc." companies owned by Sheikh Mohammed's government, took a major stake in Kerzner International, which owns and operates luxury hotels from Mexico to the Maldives, principally under the One & Only brand. "[Kerzner] fits very well with...
...that makes him really insightful,” said Edwin O. Robinson, an attendee, after the talk. Ferguson questioned the global appetite for U.S. debt, adding that the global bond market that has financed American deficit spending may not be willing to continue buying Treasury Bonds. He characterized the relationship between the United States and its foreign creditors as a marriage of convenience. “The U.S.-China marriage is in fact like many marriages: One partner does all the saving, and the other partner does all the spending,” Ferguson said. But Ferguson did not come...
Harvard may be used to bucking national trends, but in math and computer science, its relationship to the national gender gap is more complicated.Nationally, the number of incoming female undergraduates choosing computer science as a major declined 70 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The trend is part of a quarter-century decline in female computer-science majors detailed in a New York Times article on Saturday.At Harvard, the story looks different, but not necessarily any better. Over the past year, female enrollment in Computer Science 50 has jumped 60 percent...
...metropolitan” which offers an imaginative alternative to the rigid dichotomy suggested by “urban.” “Metropolis,” originally indicating the “mother” city to which the hinterlands were bound in a filial relationship, contains within it the possibility of recognizing the mutual relationships which make the city and countryside an indissoluble political unit. If Obama truly is our first metropolitan president, then, let us hope that it is under this greater metropolitanism that he will orchestrate policy...
...probably makes you a more committed teacher and a better colleague.”“It’s fabulous when you hire your own students because they know the system,” Kishlansky says. Faculty also note that their previous college affiliation helps create stronger relationships with their students, who share a similar set of undergraduate experiences. “I want [my students] to know I’m on their side of the fence,” Throntveit says. Professors are not to be feared. In fact, they are “as intimidated...