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It’s an inconvenient fact of nature that Harvard’s most celebrated weekends inevitably tend to fall on the eve of midterms. After a raging Head of the Charles, it was a shock to me that my Korean midterm (that seemed so far off in September) was on Monday at 9 a.m. As I rushed by the John Harvard statue, trying to make it to my test by seven-past, I couldn’t help but overhear admissions tour guide Erica V. Eastspring ’11 explaining to a crowd of feisty, prep-school...
...level banking executives, recognized that burst of animal spirit as the "euphoria" phase; he knew it signaled darker emotional repercussions to come as the Masters of the Universe undergo the psychological fallout from the global economic downturn. As jarring as the market drops have been, he says, "the psychological shock has been every bit as great" for bankers who have lost their jobs at Lehman and other institutions...
...Morgan says many of his clients are now out of work, and thanks to research done in the past few decades, he knows more or less what they're in for. Suspicions that a layoff may be in the offing normally generate negative feelings such as disappointment, anger and shock; then comes a period of planning for the transition, when the person takes stock of financial and other aspects of his or her life. When the actual joblessness arrives, there's a period of euphoria - especially for people with compensation packages. "It's in that euphoric time that [people] ought...
...traders, the economic downturn may come as a particularly deep shock; because most of them are young, they have never faced unemployment or recession. For their entire professional lives, their abilities have been so in demand that many have been repeatedly headhunted, giving them a sense of invulnerability. Now, Morgan says, "They're living in a world that they didn't think existed." On top of that, traders tend to be single-skilled with limited academic backgrounds, Morgan says, meaning they will need further training in order to find other jobs...
...Globe. It would be naïve “to take at face value documents discovered in secret police files years after a Stalinist regime has vanished,” the editorial board asserted on Saturday. In exactly this manner, journalists should pause before using their power to shock and spread controversy. Their prime responsibility is to exercise caution when making claims and, when blunders occur, to seek a “public recognition and rectification of [their] mistakes,” just as Solzhenitsyn demanded at Harvard 30 years ago. We can only hope that the Russian writer?...