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...extreme uncertainty in our economy and a level of volatility and dysfunction in many types of investments that went well beyond all previous experience,” wrote Mendillo, who took the helm at HMC only last summer. The decline—the largest ever experienced at HMC, which manages Harvard’s endowment—was not unexpected, and administrators have been planning for a 30 percent decline since December. Many peer institutions have been anticipating similar losses...
...said that he could not say exactly how many unionized workers had been laid off in June, due to ambiguities such as voluntary layoffs and job offers with fewer hours, but that the figure fell somewhere between 100 and 130. Jaeger also said that in the late spring and summer, union officials noticed “a burst” of job postings at Harvard for union members. Whereas they might typically expect 10 to 15 new job posts a week during the spring, by June and July the number sometimes climbed to 30 to 40, Jaeger said. The ample...
...exams. Undergraduates said they were interested in using Rosetta Stone to practice languages for travel. Marino F. Auffant ’10 was one of those students. Auffant signed up for Rosetta Stone’s Korean program because he was going to be traveling to Korea over the summer and wanted to review what he’d learned before and during freshman year. Although he said that he would recommend the program to those interested in being introduced to a new language, he added that “it was helpful, but only at an elementary level...
...needs of early adolescence. Young told the Boston Globe that he will delay making specific recommendations—which he had promised to deliver 100 days after taking office—because he did not have sufficient time to review the issue, as schools have been closed for the summer. For decades the community has been debating the state of middle school education in the district. The city has no middle schools, but rather one K-6 school and eleven that are K-8, which feed into a single high school. The school committee was in the process of addressing...
...probably gotten at least one email from this legend of the Ivies--shaming you into filling out that last Q guide evaluation form or threatening to slap you with a hefty $50 late registration fee if you try to squeeze in one last day out of your summer vacay...