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...weekend news story. Roberta V. Steele ’09 also spent much of Friday and Saturday unable to talk to her family. Her parents live outside Houston along Galveston Bay. After having stayed with family and friends during the mandatory evacuation, they were allowed a temporary return to salvage some possessions. Steele said looters were spotted in her mother’s neighborhood, and her house might have to be torn down due to damaged from a felled tree. “Now they’re just sitting and waiting,” she said...
...margin. While Kerry carried virtually every city and town in the Commonwealth, O’Reilly ran strong in places such as his hometown of Gloucester, where Kerry won by only a few points. “There are unfinished fights that we must win, and I want to return to Washington to make sure every American has the same great health care that I receive as a senator,” Kerry said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “I have always been honored to be the Junior Senator from Massachusetts...
...ship off to culinary boot camp. My sights were already set on Italy after falling in love with its food two summers ago. It also had the added benefit of being separated from home by an ocean. If I were unmasked as a culinary dud, I’d return to proclaim myself “so over cooking,” and no one would have to know.So after a year of Italian A, a few phone calls, and some generous traveling fellowships, I was off to Hotel Vannucci in Umbria. Other than my arrival date and the hotel?...
...fact that the returns were positive at all was impressive in the continuing bear market, but the growth fell well short of Harvard’s 8.6 percent return over the same period...
While Harvard invests only 8 percent of its endowment in commodities, the value of those holdings jumped dramatically over the period. Harvard’s return on “real assets”—approximately half of which is composed of commodities—climbed 35.8 percent during that time...