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...month to go until the end of the fiscal year, Mendillo says she is quite certain that the projection of a 30 percent drop in the endowment, originally formulated in October, will hold. But despite the drop, she says she is confident that her team will find ways to use the crisis to Harvard’s advantage.“The time period in which we’re going to see improvement in the world economies, financial markets, and endowment performance is very much an unknown,” Mendillo says. “But we know that...
...McLoughlin, who serves as Hammonds’ senior aid, says that the Dean had hoped to use her “freshman year” to accustom herself to College life, including learning how to navigate the College bureaucracy. He and Kidd say that the nature of this year has prevented her from getting the chance to ease her way into the deanship...
...hard to fault an intervention that makes everyone better at what they do without an extremely compelling reason. If this power came in any other form, we would not hesitate to use it, just as few complain about how weight training makes athletes stronger and computers make students more productive—even though neither is “natural.” But for some reason, when excellence comes in pill form, it’s hard to swallow...
...wheels (COW)—a van containing signal transmission and reception equipment—could be moved into place by August, also contingent on the completion of a two to three month permit application process by AT&T and approval from the City of Cambridge. COWs are frequently used to provide backup cell phone coverage when storms or other natural disasters have knocked out existing infrastructure. The issue of cell phone reception was taken up by students as early as 2005 and has adopted additional importance recently after some Quad residents reported not receiving emergency text message notifications about...
...rounds of competition. When Rajan took the podium, he began with a series of jokes, but his remarks quickly grew more serious. Rajan emphasized the ways in which many have lost faith in the business community due to the financial crisis. He added that despite this, students could use their knowledge and experience to help improve the world. Rajan noted that more than 400 students had signed up to recite an oath affirming their commitment to integrity and accountability in business practice after the Class Day ceremony. “May we give more of ourselves to our communities...