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Significantly, Semel (who declined TIME's request for an interview) is getting Yahoo! to decide what it wants to be when it grows up. "There's always been some ambiguity about whether it's a tech company or a media company," says Stewart Butterfield, Yahoo!'s director of product management and co-founder of the photo site Flickr, which Yahoo! acquired in March 2005. "But there's been a shift in the internal messaging. I never hear execs refer to Yahoo! as a media company. A year and a half ago, there wasn't a satisfying articulation of what...
...said Brigit M. Helgen ’08, president of the Harvard College Democrats. “It really does show how we are getting back to real issues that affect people’s lives.” The Harvard Republican Club did not return a request for comment. It remains unclear how an increase in the Pell Grant would be funded. Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, said yesterday that it was “quite possible” that “individual students could be less well off?...
...emerged that British Prime Minister Tony Blair had been questioned for a second time by police investigating allegations that seats in the House of Lords were sold for political donations. The interview, which took place on Jan. 26 at 10 Downing Street, was kept secret at the request of Scotland Yard. Previously questioned by police in December, Blair was again treated as a witness, not as a suspect...
...Such structure will be critical to the initiative’s impact long-term success, providing stability and the authority to direct it coherently.Most research at Harvard is funded through external grants, but faculty recruiting, new equipment and space, and lab renovations are all funded by Harvard based on requests by department chairs. Departments are less likely to expend resources recruiting scholars who work on the periphery of their respective fields—but these are precisely the scientists Harvard needs if it is to be a leader in cross-disciplinary research. Operating independent of the departments, HUSEC will...
...Harvard University has one of the most comprehensive campus sustainability programs in the country,” the report said. The institute largely saved its criticism of Harvard for a section on endowment transparency. “Detailed proxy voting records are available to the public upon request,” the report said. “Information on endowment holdings, however, is only available to the board and senior administrators.” The report rated the 100 richest American and Canadian universities on their environmental sustainability practices, examining both endowment and campus initiatives. Dartmouth College, Stanford University...