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With their endless string of pearl beaches, heavenly climate and sensual bossa nova culture, Brazilians consider themselves uniquely blessed. So when the first of two gigantic oil fields was discovered off the coast near Rio de Janeiro last fall, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva saw it simply as further proof of a celestial bond. "God," Lula gushed, "is Brazilian...
...largest government bailout in U.S. history was born before dawn on Sept. 17, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke woke up at 6 a.m., checked his BlackBerry and saw the very thing he had dreaded: the futures market in free fall. Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and New York Fed president Timothy Geithner had spent the past year staving off one disaster after another, for the most part working behind the scenes. Earlier in the month, they had let investment bank Lehman Brothers slide into oblivion and then ushered another, Merrill Lynch, into the arms of Bank of America. Just...
...tuning the details of “two halves” of the parental accommodation policy: providing access to affordable childcare and paid time off for new student parents. According to the report issued by the Joint Student Committee on Parental Accommodation, 50 percent of surveyed GSAS student parents saw their stipends lapse while on leave and 40 percent were unsatisfied with the childcare they were able to afford. The report—authored by members from the Graduate Student Council and Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering—surveyed 101 student parents, or approximately 40 percent...
...Working closely with scientists from area institutions MIT, Boston University, Tufts, and Brandeis, Harvard saw construction of several key ATLAS parts—some as large as 72 feet across—at the spacious Oxford Street site of what, prior to its closing in 2002, was the University’s own particle accelerator. Finished pieces were then mailed overseas for assembly...
...School of Engineering and Applied Sciences marked its first anniversary last weekend, it also saw interim dean Frans A. Spaepen step to the helm after veteran outgoing dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti announced he was stepping down last spring...