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...news article "Harvard To Trim Custodial Staff" incorrectly stated the number of custodial workers employed by American Cleaning Company to work at Harvard Medical School. The company currently provides 33 custodial workers, not 27, according to Medical School spokesman David Cameron. The article also incorrectly stated the number of custodial workers directly employed by HMS. The school employs 77 workers directly...
Harvard’s endowment, valued at almost $37 billion last June, was buffeted by current financial conditions, losing roughly 22 percent of its value by the end of October and sending the University scrambling to find ways to trim costs. Amidst subsequent belt-tightening measures—including a hiring freeze on FAS staff announced in November—the specter of possible layoffs has loomed over some staffers worried that their jobs may be in jeopardy...
...process concurrent with more over-arching cost-reduction measures being spearheaded by the administration. In an interview last month, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said departments have submitted proposals detailing areas that could sustain cuts. The “vast majority” of departments have founds ways to trim 15 percent of their budgets in keeping with a recommendation Smith made in December, the Dean said. “Part of the issue here is we can’t stop the business of the whole education process as we’re moving forward,” Smith...
Litt, 46, is in fighting trim. In November he won a hard-fought case against former technology investor (and longtime opera fan) Alberto Vilar, who was convicted of stealing his investors' money. The trial took nine weeks, which is long for a fraud case. "He is very much a no-nonsense prosecutor who does the right thing without excess flash or showmanship," says Colton, who represented Gary Tanaka, Vilar's partner, who was also found guilty in the case...
...sexual authority that might reduce a plutocrat to Jell-O and the little-girl smile that let her listeners in on the fun. "Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree / For me. / Been an awful good girl, Santa baby, / So hurry down the chimney tonight. ... Come and trim my Christmas tree / With some decorations bought at Tiffany. / I really do believe in you. / Let's see if you believe in me. ... Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex/ And checks. / Sign your X on the line, Santa cutie / And hurry down the chimney tonight." Hurry down...