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...realization that “we didn’t have to make our requirements embody everything we would expect to see of an applicant to grad school,” said David Charbonneau, a professor of astronomy and the director of undergraduate studies.As a relatively small concentration to begin with, the Astronomy department noticed a “very disturbing trend” of declining numbers of concentrators, said Jonathan “Josh” E. Grindlay, a professor of astronomy. “Astrophysics as a part of physics is becoming more exciting, and we thought...
Several tests of investor optimism will come in the weeks ahead, as U.S. companies begin reporting first quarter earnings (or losses). Moreover, the U.S. Treasury will probably make public the results of the bank stress tests that it has conducted in recent weeks. If stocks perform well in the face of bad quarterly numbers, or mixed news on the stress tests, market analysts will take that as a strong indicator that investor sentiment is truly turning...
...match is set to begin at 1 p.m. at Harvard Stadium, where the Crimson hopes to claim its first Ivy League victory of the season...
...waning political influence across the continent. The DRC, which is the size of Western Europe and is the world's largest French-speaking nation, is also fantastically rich in resources, and could logically be expected to partner with France when restored stability allows economic and industrial development to begin in earnest. Exchanges between the two countries now stand at a modest $250 million per year; but that might be boosted as a result of a trip on which Sarkozy was accompanied by officials from construction firms Lafarge and Vinci, France Telecom, Aeroports de Paris, and Alstom...
...housing industry is comatose, yet even that has a silver lining. We have a moment to pause and reflect before we begin building again. When big-time real estate development resumes, we can move beyond the incoherent, anything-goes paradigm of the postwar era and produce more places to live along the lines of the towns and cities everyone instinctively loves, communities designed to become true communities. "The days where we're just building sprawl forever," Obama said in February in South Florida, "those days are over. I think that Republicans, Democrats - everybody recognizes that that's not a smart...