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Gold is also a traditional safe haven from a weak dollar, which many (including Warren Buffett) are betting on. Dollar pessimists point to the massive U.S. budget deficit, which if uncorrected should weaken the buck over time. With that in mind, insurers and pension funds have begun allocating 2% to 5% of their portfolios to precious metals and other commodities...
...Warren D. Goldfarb ’69, Pearson professor of modern mathematics and mathematical logic, said that Godfrey-Smith’s arrival is a major step in improving the University’s faculty in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science...
...press, Summers spoke with the alumni search committee via conference call.The alumni expressed a “unanimous feeling” of gratitude to Summers for his decision, according to Spangler, who is also a former president of the University’s Board of Overseers.Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan ’59, who served on the 15-member faculty advisory committee, said that Light had been “an overwhelming favorite” during the search process, especially among alumni.“I had people hammering at me for the past four or five months...
...DIED. Warren Platner, 86, architect and designer whose graceful steel-wire chairs, tables and ottomans for the Knoll furniture company have been continuously produced since 1966; in New Haven, Conn. Platner, who worked with Eero Saarinen and I.M. Pei, had a role in some striking examples of modernism, including the interior design of Chicago's Water Tower Place, a vertical shopping mall, and Windows on the World, the restaurant that sat atop New York City's World Trade Center...
...DIED. Warren Platner, 86, architect and designer whose graceful steel-wire chairs, tables and ottomans for the Knoll furniture firm have been continuously produced since 1966; in New Haven, Connecticut. Platner, who worked with Eero Saarinen and I.M. Pei, had a role in some of the most striking examples of modernism, including the interior design of Chicago's Water Tower Place, a vertical shopping mall, and Windows on the World, the restaurant that sat atop New York City's World Trade Center...