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...standing-room only crowd that turned out to the Institute of Politics’ “Take Me Out to the Ballgame!” forum on Friday afternoon. The discussion, which featured Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and baseball television analyst Peter Gammons, focused on the game’s impact on race and family life. They addressed the question of how the sport has taken on a singularly influential place in the American consciousness. Robert Behn, senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, directed the proceedings which...
...Predictive Quantitative Indicator tracks references of different American universities in global print and electronic media, including the Blogosphere and social media. Schools are viewed as trademarked brands, with a high PQI value correlating to a high brand quality, according to Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst of GLM. A high ranking is a reflection of how well the university is marketing itself as a brand, Payack said. “When we have a brand, the attributes associated with it are the key things. The same is true with college. When people think of Harvard, people think...
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...needs a spark. The recession has forced diners to flee restaurants like Denny's, the Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Chang's and head to either cheaper fast-food joints or the comfort of home. "For Denny's, the core consumers are blue-collar families," says Anton Brenner, restaurant analyst at Roth Capital Partners. "They've been squeezed very hard." In the fourth quarter of 2008, same-store sales dropped 6.1%. Sales fell 3.7% for the year, and the company's stock price, at $2.14 a share, has dropped 30.5% over the past 12 months. "It wasn't a good year...
...CLSA analyst Chris Wood says that recent improvements in China's economy can be attributed partly to a surge in bank lending that began in November. This, he notes, could only happen in an authoritarian country such as China, where the government can - and did - order the banks to lend. "The bottom line is that if this was a purely capitalist system, [lending] would be slowing," Wood says. Stimulus spending over the next three months will continue to boost economic activity, Wood says, but the impact will start to wear off later in the year. Absent a recovery in China...