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Fried chicken? Really? People were more flush with money and into the no-carbohydrate zone five years ago; that was when sushi was around. Now we're in a down economy, when people go out they eat to fill up. Even people who have money don't want to spend as much. Restaurateurs want to serve food they can keep below a certain price point. So it's fried chicken served by restaurants that don't normally do fried chicken...
Moreland sees other market data flashing the same yellow light. "The uncertainty in [analysts'] forward-looking earnings estimates, and I've thought this all year, has been a reason to stay cautious in this market," he says, adding that he began raising cash two weeks ago in anticipation of a market decline. "It seems to me there's another phase we have to go through [in the financial crisis] and that has a huge amount of uncertainty surrounding it," he says...
...overcome an offense still beginning to take shape. As it turns out, all the Harvard women’s soccer team needed for its first win of 2009 was a single goal—and what a score it was.Second on the team in points and goals a year ago, junior Katherine Sheeleigh found the net for the first time this season, propelling the Crimson (1-1-1) to a 1-0 victory over New Hampshire (1-3-0) yesterday afternoon at Ohiri Field.“It feels really good for us,” co-captain Lizzy Nichols...
Inspired by the course trailer that East Asian Studies professor Shigehisa Kuriyama created for his class Culture and Belief 11: "Medicine and the Body in East Asia and Europe" over a year ago, Gen Ed administrators have encouraged professors to create videos to make their Gen Ed classes look new (even if they aren't). Gen Ed administrators Jay Harris and Stephanie Kenen could not be reached for comment...
...missive urged principals and teachers to have their students write letters to themselves about how they could assist the President, a request that some saw as an attempt to inject politics into the classroom. Jim Greer, Florida's GOP party chairman, kicked off the controversy a week ago when he condemned the President's "use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda." (Read about some schools' opposition to Obama's speech...