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Edward C. Forst has decided to step down as the University’s executive vice president as of Aug. 1, to return with his family to New York and to resume his career in the financial services industry.

“Ed has been a leader in the financial industry for 26 years,” said President Drew Faust. “His expertise and experience have played a central role in shaping Harvard’s response to the extraordinary upheaval in the financial markets this year. I am grateful for what he has done to help us navigate a year of particular challenge and change, and I wish him all the best in his plans to return to New York, his longtime family home, and to the financial world, his longtime professional home. He will remain a valued alumnus and adviser, and I know we will continue to benefit from his knowledge and insight.”

Read more here http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009…

Harvard University and the Harvard University Employees Credit Union today (April 15) announced a partnership that will make credit union loans available to international graduate and professional students.

This is the second time in two months that the University has secured a new source of funding after major lenders withdrew from the market for international student loans late last year.

In February, Harvard signed an agreement with JPMorgan Chase to provide the University’s approximately 3,300 international graduate and professional students access to private education loans without requiring a co-signer. International students at Harvard College are eligible for the College’s separate financial aid program.

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The folks at Harvard Lampoon persuaded employees of one of the nation’s most respected magazines to help them ensure their April Fool’s parody — with its teased stories on Mongolia’s wildest waterparks and “Native Girls Gone Wild” — looked authentic.
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HLS mock trial team wins first place at Black Law Students Association’s Northeast Regional Conference
In February, the Black Law Students Association’s Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial team won first-place honors at the Black Law Students Association’s Northeast Regional Conference. The team will move on to the National Conference in Irvine, California, on March 18.
Read more here at harvard news http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2009/02/23_hblsa.html

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Justice Ginsburg on the Bench as Supreme Court Reconvenes

Looking strong and cheerful, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the bench Monday morning, just 18 days after major surgery related to her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg, 75, took her place on the bench with a smile. As is the Court’s custom, no note was made of her return or her illness. Almost immediately after arguments began, she started asking questions of the advocates before her.

During the first argument in United States v. Navajo Nation, an important but dry and technical Indian mining law case, Ginsburg asked seven questions — roughly on par with her usual inquisitiveness — and she leaned forward in her chair, fully engaged. She occasionally rocked her chair back and forth, as if impatient to proceed.

Ginsburg remained very active during the second argument the justices heard Monday, in Rivera v. State of Illinois, a case involving peremptory challenges in jury selection. She jumped in with the first question of the argument hour, then continued to pose tough questions to the attorneys on both sides — 12 questions in all.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Friday was expected to pass a $789 billion economic stimulus package aimed at unleashing large spending and tax cuts to help yank the economy out of a 14-month recession.

Quick approval of the emergency package would give President Barack Obama a political victory but fall short of his goal of broad Republican backing.

The president has urged the Democratic-controlled Congress to pass the stimulus bill before the end of the upcoming holiday weekend so he can sign it into law. Its goal is to create or save 3.5 million jobs in an economy that has seen massive job losses since the recession began in December 2007.

The House of Representatives was preparing to vote by midday and the Senate was expected to follow in the early evening, but there was still no final agreement between Senate Democratic and Republican leaders to do so.

While Obama has pointed to heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc as an example of a company that has said it could begin rehiring again after the bill passed, his top economic adviser cautioned it would be a slow recovery.

“It is going to take time to work this through,” Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, said on NBC’s “Today Show.” “We’re not promising that you’re going to see some miracle cure, some silver bullet for the economy.”

Most Republicans opposed the stimulus plans Democrats put forward, saying they expanded government spending too much and did not include enough tax cuts that they argued would better boost the ailing economy.

The final package includes $507 billion in spending and money for social programs like the Medicaid health insurance program as well as $282 billion in tax cuts that include small tax incentives to spur home and automobile sales as well as business tax deductions.

“In my view, and in the view of my Republican colleagues, this is not the smart approach,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

Democrats trimmed down the package from as much as $937 billion, which brought them three Republican votes that were needed to overcome procedural hurdles in the Senate.

Senators Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter agreed to back the legislation if it was pared down to below $800 billion. To achieve that, one major cut was tens of billions of dollars from grants to help states plug growing budget gaps.

Money for building new schools was also stripped out and congressional negotiators also severely scaled back tax incentives aimed at boosting flagging home and car sales that were deemed too expensive.

Still, the measure includes almost $54 billion to help states with their budget deficits and to modernize schools, $27.5 billion for highway projects, $8.4 billion for public transportation and $9.3 billion for Amtrak and high-speed rail service, among other projects.

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I live in the rural group of people but we do not have any plants in the yard because the entire yard is cemented. There are merely few vines that make a passage. The ancestry of the vine is not enclosed with cement and there is small peace of earth and my brother and I determined to set up a little garden there. Our care for helped us and present we set up a little “backyard” there, in exacting a lawn. But abruptly we faced a trouble – chicken those were on foot in yard freely. The contaminated our garden and on our part we with this the garden with cable netting. We also covered it with “roof” so that the rooster would not fly into our backyard. You may laugh but one more problem rose. The “roof” finished of wires turned out to be low and the sorts of plants we planted in the backyard were growing high. So we had to get down the “house” and construct a new one. We worked solid and gained a high-quality result: there appeared a small oasis in our “cemented” yard. I frequently believe that I dream of a small spot of earth but some contain this mark and do not get care of it. But how good-looking the dapper ground is! i spend holidays with friends slave

and with mu best friend veiga
It is not likely to grow greenery or vegetation in our backyard but we twisted our home into a little orangey. We have a lot of inside plants that we obtain care of. These plants have one benefit: gardens become strip when coldness comes but we do not feel it anyhow, as if we be in opposition to the nature. It is my mother’s value that my brother and I adore flowers so much. She taught us to love plants.

Lawyer Disbarred for Failing to Pay Sanctions, Fees in Holocaust Case

An attorney well known for representing Holocaust survivors has been disbarred after he neglected to pay sanctions imposed by a federal judge in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Bank Austria Creditanstalt and other entities.

In an August 2005 decision excoriating Edward Davis Fagan, Southern District of New York Judge Shirley Wohl Kram fined the lawyer for having a financial interest in the outcome of the $6.8 billion action and trying to circumvent a $40 million payment made by Bank Austria to Holocaust survivors and their heirs. Several months later, the judge denied Fagan’s bid to reargue Association of Holocaust Victims for Restitution of Artwork & Masterpieces, a/k/a “AHVRAM” v. Bank Austria Creditanstalt, No. 04 Civ. 3600, and ordered the attorney to pay Bank Austria nearly $350,000 in attorney fees.

Thursday, in Matter of Edward D. Fagan, M-2732, M-3148, M-3193, a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, 1st Department, held that Fagan’s failure to pay the bulk of the $5,000 sanction and all of the money owed to Bank Austria, his “pattern of prior sanctions for unprofessional conduct” and his “lack of contrition” made him unfit to practice law.

In addition to the money Fagan owes as a result of the case before Kram, he has failed to pay more than $20,000 in sanctions and fees imposed by three other federal judges, the panel said.

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