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Summers proposed the committee at a retreat with the deans of all the schools this summer...
University President Lawrence H. Summers touts Harvard’s planned expansion into Allston as a way to propel this institution into the twenty-first century, and he is right. But some recently released tentative plans put forth at an administration summer retreat show some significant flaws...
There will be a lot of second-guessing about the economy's strength (accompanied by flat or weaker stock prices) before the market gives credit for solid growth through 2004. If you want to stay home, wait for cyclical stocks to retreat or for the economy to prove out, or focus on stocks that have lagged: defensive companies in food or health care or those with a secure dividend yield in the 2% to 5% range...
This angle in reporting foreign affairs has caused much distortion. Consider the former Yugoslavia. Instead of focusing on the rather boring Serbian retreat from its outposts in Kosovo, CNN and BBC regaled in airing errant U.S. bombs blowing trains off their tracks and careening into downtown Belgrade. And only after the broadcast of a certain amount of death and destruction against the people of Sarajevo was it acceptable for America and NATO to threaten a military barrage of their very...
Summers did caution that no decisions have been made, rejecting the term “plan” to describe what was presented at the July deans’ retreat...