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Michael B. Broukhim ’07 Editorial chair Drew Gilpin Faust becomes president of Harvard and renames it Radcliffe. Harvey C. Mansfield says Harvard has lost its “manliness” and bemoans “the rule of the less wise over the more wise...
...load and unload buses on campus. Because airport shuttles are a highly useful and cost-saving service for students, the University should do what it can to foster entrepreneurial success in this area, even if this means waiving its usual guidelines on student businesses. This would be especially wise because another alternative—for the University to have its paid staff organize shuttles—would be a far more expensive way to achieve the same result...
...those that have gone up the most-places like Latin America, India, Russia and China-are likely to fall the most. At times like these, investors should remember that, while buying during selling panics tends to yield superior returns in years to come, euphoric buying binges often prove a wise time to sell. In today's heady environment, I'd recommend building up cash positions, not least by lowering exposure to assets in overheated emerging markets. And if you must believe in fairy tales, try Little Red Riding Hood. That's the one in which the little girl is devoured...
Rules are rules, and however much College students despise the Core (and will probably come to despise its successor), they also must cope with it. Only the most brazen, worldly-wise student, at ease with casting his GPA to the wind, will remain obdurate to the Core’s nefarious invitation to partake of novel “global perspectives”—generously complimented by a course’s tinge of academic ease...
...Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded his problems. Soon after his return to the wild he had another encounter with one of his forest-wise cousins. This time, Zhang says, Xiang Xiang tried to escape by climbing a tree. Evidently tree climbing wasn't part of his rehabilitation training either: the hapless bear fell and, from what rangers could gather from their monitors, probably broke a leg. Since then, Xiang Xiang hasn't been seen. Despite that ominous sign, Zhang says he doesn't regret sending his charge back into the wild. "We did not want...