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...Unfortunately, it is true. It is a combination: part of it is that we are going back to Israel, as a family. [...] I would have wanted to continue my relationship with Harvard, but there is a limit of three years—and this is my third year??given that I am a lecturer, not a tenured faculty professor.12.FM: What do you plan to do next?TBS: To live in Israel with my family and to be a visiting professor in the United States at another university. Whoever will take me [laughter].13.FM: Where can Harvard?...
...Crimson was bounced out by Boston College in the final in 2006, and the Eagles broke Harvard’s collective heart in the opening round of last year??s tournament in a 4-3 triple-overtime thriller...
...ABC’s airing of the Capra classic “It’s A Wonderful Life,” with all the rapt huddling, the luminescent self-forgetting that entailed? Or, for the sake of universality, “Dick Clark’s New Year??s Rockin’ Eve”? I don’t, really—usually someone fell asleep midway through, or a fight broke out—but I’ve found a commendable cognate in YouTube, and one that caters happily to my bombed-out, Internet...
...academics provide the content for scholarly journals. We evaluate articles as referees, we serve on editorial boards, we work as editors ourselves, yet the journals force us to buy back our work, in published form, at outrageous prices. Many journals now cost more than $20,000 for a year??s subscription.The spiraling cost of journals has inflicted severe damage on research libraries, creating a ripple effect: in order to purchase the journals, libraries have had to reduce their acquisitions of monographs; the reduced demand among libraries for monographs has forced university presses to cut back on the publication...
...Nearing their terminus, the bonds fall into the laps of yet another culpable party: hedge funds. The incentive structure of hedge funds depends on maximizing return each year??rather than lowering the riskiness of its portfolio or pursuing long-term growth, or even solvency. Thus, in many cases these funds snap up the purportedly AAA securities, leveraging their positions skyward, and happily taking high yields...