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Silverman really has been a player in just about every important business trend of the past three decades. He has watched the rise, fall and resurgence of private equity--what used to be called leveraged buyouts, or LBOs--from inside and out. "There are certainly cycles," Silverman said, when I talked to him a few days after Realogy went private. "And in the current iteration of the capital markets, clearly the private-equity guys are sitting in the catbird seat...
...everyone is comfortable with this freewheeling baby feeding. Milk banks, which sell bottled breast milk, already make some people squirm; the idea of physically breast-feeding a child not your own evokes even deeper taboos. Rhonda Shaw, a sociologist who studies shared nursing in New Zealand, where the trend is also up, says many confuse "adult meanings of eroticism with breast feeding ... Sometimes people associate a woman breast-feeding another woman's baby with pedophilia." Even the pro-nursing group La Leche League has concerns about milk sharing because, in addition to helpful immunities and antibodies, viruses can be passed...
...shootings marked the latest step in a long trend of you-witness journalism. The London 7/7 bombings were caught on camera phone; cell-phone calls went live on TV during the Columbine shootings; even the seminal 1970 image of the Kent State shootings was taken by photojournalism student John Filo...
...Harvard’s inaugural advising week wraps up, concentration-hopping freshmen may have noticed a trend among departments starving for concentrators (and attention). In fact, with East Asian Studies doling out sushi, Computer Sciences offering ice cream, and various concentrations stuffing prospects with stuffed-crust pizza, it’s pretty obvious that intellectual curiosity wasn’t the only thing these desperate departments were catering to. Given the fixation with food, FM’s nutrition experts created a concentration-guide pyramid to help students make healthy choices. Chosen sparingly—Endangered concentrations (where fats, oils...
...program. Next year’s FIP class will require the addition of several FIP-leader positions and a relocation out of Weld, where FIPpers were traditionally housed. Despite these challenges, Gong and Richards have expressed confidence in their plans for the future.The Society’s trend toward openness has already shown signs of success. Expansion in the name of openness will bring novel challenges for Woodbridge’s leaders, but if they succeed, it seems they will benefit not just internationals, but the entire Harvard community...