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...Greek tragedy—I’m not sure which,” said Cohen. But recent events make this contest a very different race from the one in 2006. In last month’s election, which resulted in the reelection of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Liberal Party saw their number of seats in Parliament reduced from 95 to 76. Current Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion will step down as soon as a new leader is chosen, making him only the second Liberal Party leader in the Party’s history to fail to attain...
...version that just opened on Broadway - directed, as it was in London, by Stephen Daldry - has lost a little of the power it displayed on its home turf. But if Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank-rescue plan can become the model for the rest of the world's finance ministers, there's no reason why Billy Elliot - the best musical to come out of Britain since Miss Saigon - can't bridge the cultural chasm...
...brink of a brutal contraction as customers - rich investors, university endowments and pensions funds that make up the bulk of hedge funds' clientele - rush to withdraw their investments. Some analysts predict that a quarter of all hedge funds could fold by the end of the year. Stephen Brown, an economist at New York University's Stern School of Business, says the final toll could be much higher. "I'd say 50% of funds will close," he says. Factor in likely new government regulation, and the industry looks set for a profound, and painful, transformation. One newly retired fund manager seemed...
...with reporting by Stephen Kim and Jennifer Veale / Seoul
...Task Force has taken into account peer institutions, past Harvard reforms, and student opinions, all that can be certain at this point is that, like all institutional reforms at Harvard, the implementation of Task Force’s findings will take time.PEERING AROUNDEnglish professor and Task Force head Stephen J. Greenblatt and several other members declined to offer details on the their unreleased report, but English professor and Humanities Center Director Homi K. Bhabha, who is also a member of the Task Force, said the results of their investigation would be based on an examination of peer institutions?...