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...speaker. Not a huge surprise, considering Harvard's new green initiative and Al Gore's recent speech in Tercentenary Theatre. Green is the new Crimson, baby. But although Harvard is digging that Chu is a passionate advocate for renewable energy, his passion for academics went somewhat...unappreciated by the Ivy Leagues in an earlier go-round. In his autobiography on the Nobel Prize web site, he writes of how he was rejected by all the Ivy League schools he applied to--including, FlyByBlog presumes, Harvard, where two cousins were attending. The relevant...
...classmates expressed their affection for the student whom “everybody wanted to be around.” “I have heard from a lot of our sectionmates in the last 48 hours,” Offensend said. “Everybody is somewhat angry and somewhat sad. There’s a lot of support and affection for Rick.” —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Over the past year, government officials have been somewhat hesitant to bring the issue of trade imbalances up because it isn't as pressing as getting people back to work and restoring confidence. At the first meeting of the G-20 last fall, it was hardly mentioned at all. But as former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said in November, it cannot be left untreated over the long term. "The pressure from global imbalances will simply build up again until it finds another outlet," he explained. (Read "The G-20 Summit: Obama Can Stay Home...
...course, this is all in the (somewhat) distant, gloomy future. For the moment, parents’ and adult relatives’ forays into Facebook can seem merely awkward. When the friend request comes, what to do? If you accept, they can see everything. Pictures from parties, your relationship status (leading to fun games like, “You’re married to your female friend? That’s a joke right?”), drunk wall posts and status updates, and photos of red Solo cups are now fair game. If you reject, they will be crushed...
...since August of last year. But while there is some respite from the dawn-to-dusk hammering and drilling that came with Dubai's construction boom, some $8 billion in projects have now been either scrapped or put on hold. The city's notoriously brutal traffic jams have eased somewhat in recent weeks since the reported exodus of thousands of expatriates, who make up more than 85% of Dubai's population. The departures, however, could also be a sign of job losses: foreigners are generally not permitted to live in Dubai without a work visa...