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In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and heightened interest stemming from last year’s vigorously contested results and the possibility of a similar contest this year
Harvard Magazine is providing enhanced coverage. We asked each candidate presented by the HAA nominating committee and each member of the Harvard Forward slate seeking a place on the ballot by petition to answer these questions:
• What are the most important challenges facing the University and what are its most significant opportunities?
• What is the Board of Overseers’ role in Harvard’s response to those challenges and in its efforts to realize those opportunities?
A short update on the Mayberry v. KKR, a pathbreaking public pension suit targeting customized hedge funds designed for the sitting duck Kentucky Retirement Systems by Blackstone, KKR, and PAACO. The litigation is on track to becoming a Jarndyce v Jarndyce level case study in the (mis)use of procedure to delay a case. As we recapped right after the new year:
In 2017, eight plaintiffs filed a derivative lawsuit on behalf of the spectacularly underfunded and incompetently/corruptly run Kentucky Retirement Systems, the public pension fund for the State of Kentucky (see former board member Chris Tobe’s Kentucky Fried Pensions for lurid details). The filings alleged breach of fiduciary duty and other abuses by three hedge funds operators, KKR/Prisma, Blackstone, and PAAMCO, in the sale and management of customized hedge funds with too-cute names like Daniel Boone. The fund managers had promised the impossible, high returns with low risk, when KKR’s and Blackstone’s SEC filings corr
When we rang in 2020 this time last year, who knew it would go down as a dumpster fire?
From murder hornets and street riots to epic natural disasters and working from home in pajamas, 2020 was a year of mishaps and mayhem.
Haywood County had an ample helping of drama and spectacle of its own. Hereâs a look back at the top controversies of 2020.
Homeless showdown
The negative spill-over effects of the homeless population in Waynesville was hands-down one of the top controversies of 2020.
Critics of the homeless population became a regular fixture at the twice-monthly Waynesville town board meetings for much of the year, donning yellow T-shirts that read âSaving Haywood.â
“Ten Ten, Twenty Twenty,” and we have your The Real Housewives of Atlanta recap below. On tonight’s RHOA season 13 episode 2, as per the Bravo synopsis,
“Porsha returns home from her second arrest in Kentucky and also reveals that she and Dennis have called it quits.
Kenya offers Cynthia marital advice and juggles her fast track friendship with LaToya. Drew and Ralph agree to go to marriage counseling, while Cynthia and Mike disagree over when to host their dream wedding.
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Tonight’s episode is going to be filled with more crazy RHOA housewife drama that you won’t want to miss, so be sure to tune in for our The Real Housewives of Atlanta recap tonight between 8 PM – 9 PM ET! While you wait for our recap make sure to check out all our RHOA recaps, spoilers, news & more, right here!