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CORRECTION APPENDEDIt’s 1 p.m. sharp on a cloudy Thursday afternoon, and room 114 of the Barker Center sits completely empty. This may be the room to which Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies Duana Fullwiley is assigned to teach African and African American Studies 199: “Delimiting Health Disparities in the African Diaspora,” but instead of staying cooped up in the classroom, she and her 18 hand-picked students are out in Boston, working with various immigrant African communities and putting to work all they have learned the first half...
Short selling is among the most controversial investment practices and has been blamed for sharp sell-offs in the stocks of a number of large companies, especially financial firms. Governments in both the U.S. and other developed countries are considering banning or seriously restricting the practice of short selling. When financial stocks were dropping rapidly late last year, taking short positions in some banks and brokerage stocks was actually forbidden...
...approach and to engage with Iran on this issue, as well as other critical national security fronts, such as Tehran’s involvement in Iraq and its support of Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. Obama’s Nowruz message to the Islamic world signaled a sharp shift and willingness to open a new dialogue...
...Most of the competitors began rapping before high school; after coming to college, they have found few opportunities to practice their skills.For OUTWIT veteran Lev A. Shaket ’10, rap battles were a part of his high school culture in Atlanta. At Harvard, he tries to keep sharp by informally rapping to friends. “You have to rap a lot to yourself and that’s the only way you get better,” Shaket says. Though he isn’t aware of any substantial rap scene at Harvard, he notes that...
...light of the current global credit and real estate market environment,” according to a University statement. Jane L. Mendillo, President and CEO of HMC since last July, praised Cummings’ “depth of national and global experience,” “sharp eye for anticipating market trends,” and “outstanding ability for developing innovative investment strategies.” Cummings, who is currently a managing director at real estate investment firm Matapeake Partners, once managed $22 billion worth of North American and European public and private real...