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...organizers said the conference is a sign of years’ worth of growth.“It is a culminating moment. There has been such an extraordinary amount of progress on issues of interest to LGBT people since we started in 1983,” said philosophy professor Warren Goldfarb ’69, who was the first openly gay professor at Harvard.The weekend was centered around a series of events and panels, including morning prayers with FAS and Kennedy School lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a speech by University President Drew G. Faust...
Elizabeth Warren, a law school professor and expert on bankruptcy and commercial law, was an audience favorite with her colloquialized version of the crisis. In her comments, Warren labeled subprime mortgages “35 cent bananas” that should have been priced at 15 cents, said homeowners had tapped the equity value of their homes with a “sledgehammer,” and described the housing bubble as being rife with “crazy money, free money, we’ll-pay-you-to-take-our-money money...
Scharfstein noted that Warren Buffet’s purchase of $5 billion of Goldman Sachs preferred stock was a step in the right direction...
...back as the penny-saving Ben Franklin and the conquistadores chasing their dreams of golden cities, this has been a country of mixed minds about how to get rich. We extol the conservative Warren Buffett model: selling 4 cent Cokes for a nickel and conscientiously saving the proceeds, investing in quality goods and well-run enterprises and shunning a penthouse on Central Park when a five-bedroom home in Omaha, Neb., will do. At the same time, we're always on the lookout for the next gold rush, the next Powerball, the next bubble. The fact that Wall Street banks...
...Wall Street, but two of the world's richest businessmen are vowing to spend tens of millions of dollars more - not on bolstering their own companies, but in helping the world's poorest. With Congress locked in talks over a mammoth bailout package, Bill Gates and Howard Buffett (Warren's oldest son) announced at the United Nations on Wednesday that their private foundations will plow more than $75 million into helping small farmers in Africa and Latin America to sell their crops as food aid - a move which could potentially overhaul the decades-old - and often criticized - global food...