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Not me. Typically the last line I read in an article like that is the one that says "Page 1 of 6." I was curious to discover what happened to the $37 billion, but it was clear the author had other plans.


Try Firefox with the AutoPager extension. Just keep scrolling down and the follow-on pages appear. Not perfect, but adequate.

And don't blame the author -- the magazine did the pagination.


Or, click on the "print" link. All on one page, then.


Sorry, I should've been clearer: I wasn't complaining about the pagination, I was complaining about the lack of anything resembling editing. You don't need six long pages to explain the presence of financial mismanagement at a large institution. It would be nice if I had the personal bandwidth to read that much text to get a simple summary of the issues, but I don't.

I found it interesting that my comment was modded down lower than another that questions the whole point behind Harvard's existence.


I actual appreciated the historical background, the information about the Management Company, the loose focus on the main issue, the commentary and evidence gathering.

It is a complicated situation with multiple reasons for the failure and with wide ranging repercussions, I paragraph wouldn't real do it.

If you want the executive summary then - Uni financial managers got rich, bailed, made greed based short term decisions which when recessions came wiped out most of the financial reserve; other managers locked up the rest in assets with poor liquidity.


I think many journalists are paid by the word. I'm not sure if this worse or better then programmers being paid based on number of bugs found and fixed.




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