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Rumor has it that Harvard will soon unveil the identity of this year's commencement speaker. So while Harvard officials remain tight-lipped, Flyby has put together a list of who not to cross your fingers for. Commencement would-be horrors after the jump...
...promoting future economic stability. Mangers at hedge funds and other unregulated market players are often reluctant to open their bets to scrutiny or reveal their positions in the market because doing so allows competitors to mirror trades and dilute profits. Many also view the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with tight regulations as time-consuming and expensive distractions from a funds’ ultimate goal: making money. These objections to oversight, however, ignore the potential damage that unregulated investing and high-risk betting can wreak. Unchecked hedge funds, unregulated derivatives traders, exotic trades, and obscure credit-default swaps all pose threats...
...they have longer commutes. The number of pets started to boom right around the same time that these trends began to take off. This suggests that people are leaning on pets to fill the gap in social support mechanisms that earlier might have come from their families or tight-knit neighborhoods. This is why single people or childless couples might want to get a pet. There's just a lot more of those folks right now and they have the wherewithal financially to do so. In turn they've sort of spurred a whole industry of dog walkers...
...money can lead to safe research proposals at the expense of bolder and potentially ground-breaking projects. Wagers, who studies how blood-forming and skeletal muscle-forming stem cells may be harnessed for regenerative medicine, called the grant “enabling” in today’s tight funding climate. “It gives me the opportunity to pursue new directions and be creative in my science,” Wagers said. The other Harvard-affiliated grant recipients—Bernstein, Hochedlinger, and Wilson—did not return requests for comment for this article. Eggan...
Harvard continued spring break action this week, splitting a doubleheader against the UNC Greensboro Spartans in Greensboro, N.C. on Tuesday, and winning both games of another doubleheader versus the Bryant Bulldogs played Thursday in Smithfield, R.I.In each twinbill, the Crimson (12-6) held its opponents to tight scores in the first games. Harvard lost, 3-0, to the Spartans in the opening game, and beat the Bulldogs by a slim 2-1 margin in Thursday’s opening matchup. In the second games, the Crimson offense came alive, and Harvard outscored UNCG (11-15), 10-5, and Bryant...