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Edward C. Forst ’82, Harvard’s first executive vice president who stepped down Aug. 1 after a year on the job, will return to Goldman Sachs on Sept. 8 as the firm’s senior strategy officer while continuing to advise Harvard on finances and capital planning...
...service." Goldman, he notes, has already paid back the $10 billion - plus $318 million in dividends and an additional $1.1 billion to buy back warrants (at above-market value, he adds) - that Paulson forced it to take last October from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. Taxpayers' annualized return on their nine-month investment in Goldman Sachs? A cool...
...caveat: if you drive more miles than the lease allows, return the vehicle to the dealer in lousy shape or terminate the lease early, you could be on the hook for some heavy fees, which can dramatically add to a car's overall cost. That's one reason Consumer Reports, among other reputable research outfits, has long determined that purchasing, rather than leasing, makes better financial sense for most individual drivers...
...baseball’s Juiced Era were skilled ballplayers even without the aid of chemical enhancement. PEDs let great athletes leverage their skills to even higher, previously unimaginable levels. They enabled marginal athletes to make massive sums of money playing a kids game. And they allowed baseball to return to the glory it had lost in the 1994 strike...
...Many of these armed groups have already indicated that they are not interested in giving up their already limited sovereignty in return for participating in an election that few believe will be free or fair. Burma's last electoral exercise, in 1990, ended with the non-ethnic National League for Democracy winning the most seats in parliament, with ethnic-based political parties coming in second and third and the junta-backed party finishing fourth. However, the junta ignored the results and kept its grip on power. "Some analyses say that even a rigged election is O.K., if it leads...