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...According to The New York Times, Slim will put $250 million into NYT, the paper's parent. "Under the terms of the deal, Mr. Slim, who already owns 6.9% of the Times Company, would invest $250 million in the form of six-year notes with warrants that are convertible into common shares...
Last year’s intersession remains one of my favorite Harvard memories. I went up to a friend’s house in Vermont with six other Harvard students, only one of whom I had previously met. After a week of toboggan races, barefoot ventures through the snow from the sauna to the ice pond, and impromptu guitar compositions by burning embers at twilight, I came out with a new group of friends I might never have met otherwise...
...last time?" Because we have a new group of people every four years and 90% of them have never put on a parade before, much less an Inaugural parade. I guess it was in the '80s or '90s that I'd wait until about six weeks before the Inaugural parade was to take place before I'd contact a mover, a shaker or a decision maker to say, "Hey, I'm here if you need me." And anytime I make myself known, it's like, "God, can you get over here right away?! Can we pick your brain...
...What I remember most that year was thinking it was a miracle that there was a parade at all. The night before D.C. had [had] a snowstorm accumulating six inches! So that night the Inaugural committee had 3,000 servicemen, 700 trucks, 100 snowplows, even Army flame throwers working all night. When it was time for the parade, anywhere and everywhere you looked there were at least six inches of snow, but on Pennsylvania Avenue, it was clear as a bell...
...Will Rwanda succeed? It's certainly a risky plan. Armed interventions in Congo have a history not only of failure but also of sullying those who perpetrate them. In 1998 the war sucked at least six neighboring African countries into what quickly became a smash and grab for Congo's timber and minerals. The U.N. has also had to deal with a series of scandals concerning sex abuse and gun running by its soldiers. The Rwandan mission may be aimed at bringing peace. But they are not coming in peace, and in Congo that has always led to more...