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...years after the station’s inception, only Harvard buildings had access to WHRB, via wiring threaded through the system of steam tunnels beneath the campus. Along with disc jockeys and announcers, WHRB’s membership included a board of student engineers who spent much of their time navigating the intricate tunnel system and making sure the network was running smoothly...
...indirect” investments in such companies through funds in its portfolio.The University’s holdings in three of those funds declined slightly during the first quarter of 2007, according to filings last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But the student divestment movement has picked up steam throughout the spring.Divestment from the University’s indirect holdings, however, may prove difficult.‘MUCH TRICKIER’In April 2005, Harvard became the first U.S. university to divest from a company linked to Sudan when it sold its holdings in PetroChina, a Chinese oil company...
...whole idea of productive aging--getting an economic return on the accumulated knowledge and skills of what might be called the young old--has political steam and will probably surface on the presidential trail next year. "There are candidates on both sides giving this a lot of thought," says Maya MacGuineas, fiscal-policy director at the New American Foundation, a think tank that promotes new ideas. We're a long way from fully tapping this vast resource, says Marc Freedman, author of Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life. "But we're getting there," he adds...
...December, Kleinfeld was caught by surprise during a visit to the company's industrial-steam-turbine business in Grlitz, a provincial city on the Neisse River, which divides Germany and Poland. Kleinfeld walked into a meeting with about 200 of the division's staff, shook a few hands and launched into a pep talk in German. As he started to hit his stride, many of the division's top executives looked on dumbfounded. Then Rene Umlauft, the division CEO, intervened, waving his hand at Kleinfeld and forcing him to stop midsentence. "Excuse me, Mr. Kleinfeld," said Umlauft...
...more liberal members, but that could attract support from Republicans, who are facing increasing impatience for progress in Iraq from their voters at home. And while there is still some discussion of a "short leash" strategy - passing a small funding bill, and continuing to fight - that idea is losing steam, because Democratic leaders believe it would simply give Bush a series of victories...