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...fair, does mention “late-night talks and dinner-table debates” as an important element of undergraduate life. Presumably, the collegiality present in these informal interactions could drive education at the College. However, to raise student collegiality to the level of the lecture hall would come precariously close to making academics not “whatever we choose it to be” and instead a matter of a common search for understanding—one that can’t be left at the exit of the classroom. This collaboration might then serve...
...attitudes and educational rhetoric to comment only on each person’s life as it matters to the student, but certainly not to the wider community. A collection of nominally associated individuals can affect powerful change in the world at large, but not the shifts in attitude that would establish collective striving within. Without this last change, community at Harvard will remain up to individuals’ efforts to forge it, For prefrosh and undergraduates alike, membership in the wider Harvard community will remain a nebulous concept...
According to the e-mails, Harvard entered the $500 million credit default swap—essentially an insurance policy that would pay off in the case of mortgage defaults—with Goldman paying about 100 basis points, or $5 million, per year for protection against defaults...
...back $1 billion single names and $2 billion of the stuff below—today." Daniel L. Sparks, the former head of the firm’s mortgage division, wrote to a group of traders in reference to deals—including the one with Harvard—that would lock in profits from shorting the housing market. "I know that sounds huge, but you can do it—spend bid/offer, pay through the market, whatever to get it done...
...stories from the Christmascues especially are so heartwarming that they would be a welcome addition to anyone’s holiday experience. Piling into school buses on a cold winter’s night, the members of all three Holden Choirs drive the half-hour it takes to reach Marvin’s house in Lexington, Massachusetts. There, they bask in the glow of the fire that Marvin tends (carefully, as if it were the fourth Holden chorus), drink eggnog, and converse with his oft-referenced wife Polly...