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To: KyrosL who wrote (71781)	12/17/2009 7:55:44 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I'll probably put in some stink bids on GDXJ in the 17.50 - 21.50 range or so, in case gold continues down here and the underwater GDXJ holders puke it up for tax loss purposes. C? Interesting.

To: KyrosL who wrote (71781)	12/18/2009 5:31:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 74559

The swaps, which assumed that interest rates would rise, proved so toxic that the 373-year-old institution agreed to pay banks a total of almost $1 billion to terminate them. Most of the wrong-way bets were made in 2004, when Lawrence Summers, now President Barack Obama’s economic adviser, led the university. Cranes were recently removed from the construction site of a $1 billion science center that was to be the expansion’s centerpiece, a reminder of Summers’s ambition. The school suspended work on the building last week. “For nonprofits, this is going to be written up as a case study of what not to do,” said Mark Williams, a finance professor at Boston University, who specializes in risk management and has studied Harvard’s finances. “Harvard throws itself out as a beacon of what to do in higher learning. Clearly, there have been major missteps.” bloomberg.com