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...other key areas. I look forward, as well, to supporting Bill's leadership in guiding Harvard's efforts to deepen and widen our scholarship and teaching about China in the years ahead. We are fortunate to have someone of his experience, collaborative outlook, and deep knowledge of China to shape our thinking about creative new ways to engage with the most populous nation on earth, at the start of a century whose defining developments seem sure to include China's rising influence around the globe. Few areas of academic interest hold greater promise for the University in the decades ahead...
...with reason. For athletes, the Olympics are the culmination of years of arduous training, heady determination and the belief that anything is possible. For spectators, the Olympics are the ultimate inspiration, the opportunity to watch their favorite athletes' dreams materialize into a very tangible reality-often in the shape of a medal...
...There's no telling what will happen with Iran, of course. More often than not, though, these kinds of international crises pass without derailing the economy. And the economy today is in good shape-slowing, granted, but just enough to bring a welcome end to the Fed's inflation-taming campaign of short-term interest-rate boosts. Historically, this point in the cycle has been a great time to be in stocks...
Ford Motor is in much better shape than GM, in part because it is smaller by about one-third in the U.S. While GM is awash in red ink, Ford Motor overall is still profitable, thanks to trucks like the F-150 and its finance and global business, which includes Mazda, Volvo and Land Rover. (Another brand, Jaguar, is losing money.) On the cost side, the U.S. carmakers are dragged down by the huge burden of benefits for retired workers, such as health care, which account for $930 of the cost of each of GM's vehicles, $560 of Ford...
...that comprise the student body at Harvard College. Thus, while there are of course many curricular routes to liberal education, the one proposed in these reports sets out a curriculum of choice, incentive, and opportunity more than one of restriction and requirement. It aims to allow our students to shape their education, even as it gives departments and individual faculty greater responsibility in helping to shape it. It permits our curriculum to evolve, as areas of knowledge advance...