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Environmental sustainability and a greener Harvard featured as a topic of debate last night, with all candidates recognizing the importance of the issue...
...Drake, however, is not the only influential SBC member with opinions on the topic. When I called Richard Land, head of the denomination's influential Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and its principal Washington strategist, he agreed with Warren. "Rick is having a summit on AIDS, and Barack Obama has said some compelling things about the issue. I work all the time in coalition with people to the right and left of me, when we're in agreement on a specific issue. One of the markers of Evangelicals is the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time...
...psychological truth in the idea that an old and isolated artist could have been thrilled to have a young woman be his copyist,” he says. “But it’s largely a failure.” On the topic of Beethoven, Lockwood knows his stuff. His book, “Beethoven: The Music and the Life,” was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. In 1996, a volume entitled “Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood” was published. And just last...
...Executive Director for HUPA Thomas A. La Salvia gives an example of a case where two separate research teams—one HSPH, one HMS—were both working in South Africa. The two groups were in the same country studying the same topic. But, for a while, neither had any idea that the other existed...
...banks, especially since hedge funds often leverage their investments, which magnifies gains. Or losses. "In most areas, risk goes down over time--airplanes are safer, GDP is more stable--but financial markets have gotten riskier," says Rick Bookstaber, a hedge-fund manager who is writing a book on the topic. "Financial engineering has actually created more risk by adding complexity." Since the summer, the Treasury Department has been meeting with regulators, investors and hedge-fund managers to study this sort of systemic risk...