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...explanation Kirby offered for the change was an unexpectedly high “yield” of prospective professors who accepted Harvard’s offers to join the Faculty, several chairs said. According to Kirby’s Sept. 23 letter, that yield was 75 percent for senior faculty—“far above our historic norm,” Kirby wrote...
Therein lies the problem: guessing isn’t science. Processes of inquiry—especially those of science—are only productive when they yield valid, reliable results, and only strong evidence can provide that necessary validity. Anyone can guess anything they want, and perhaps those ideas have a place in a philosophy classroom. But in a modern science classroom, ideas are worthless if they can’t be defended empirically, which the so-called “theory” of intelligent design cannot...
Nearly every asset class outperformed its internal benchmark, investment goals set by the management company’s board based on market performance. Domestic and foreign bonds, traded by two fund managers who left Friday with Meyer, were once again out in front. Private equity, high-yield assets, and commodities also did exceptionally well...
Meyer’s firm, Convexity Capital Management, traces its name to a bond term that describes the convex relationship between price and yield for bonds. Meyer’s fund is expected to focus on bonds as two of the top managers that Meyer took with him—David Mittelman and Maurice Samuels—were renowned bond traders at HMC. Mittelman and Samuels were also the two highest paid managers at HMC in the past two fiscal years...
...implemented, the blueprint released Monday will yield an agreement nearly identical to the "Agreed Framework" negotiated by the Clinton Administration in 1994, which President Bush all but rejected in 2001. In that agreement, the U.S. also promised aid, a light-water reactor and the possibility of normal relations in exchange for a guarantee from North Korea that it would mothball its nuclear weapons program. After a strategic review of that framework, however, the U.S. accused North Korea of carrying on a secret program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons; North Korea then accused the U.S. of failing to live...