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...Though the announcement has inflamed resentment, several staffers said the news did not come as a surprise. Rumors of job cuts had begun to circulate as early as November, when the University announced a hiring freeze on most staff positions, and the possibility further solidified with the announcement of the early retirement incentive program in February...
...behind the Pitot theory is growing. Airbus, after all, recommended nearly two years ago that airlines replace Pitot tubes like those aboard 447 with an improved model less prone to icing. While aviation authorities in Europe and the U.S. never made the change mandatory, Air France said it had begun replacing the tubes in May - and agreed to speed up the process following the crash at the demand of pilot unions...
...recent days, 10 top banks have begun to repay some $68 billion in TARP funds. According to Warren, knowing exactly what happened to money spent under TARP is less important than simply keeping the pressure on. "We certainly haven't achieved perfect transparency," she says...
...access. “I’m positive about it. I think it will allow faculty to make their publications more easily available,” he said. In a continuation of its efforts to disseminate faculty members’ scholarly work, the Office for Scholarly Communication has begun a dialogue with all Harvard schools to consider approving open access policies. —Staff writer Niha S. Jain can be reached at nsjain@fas.harvard.edu...
...self-effacing, but also so utterly unperturbed by his own absent chin that he somehow became plausible as a romantic lead. In Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the apparently innate peevishness, a whine that pays homage to the hunting mosquito, which had worked so well in Superbad, had begun to grate, but it was still clear that the movie would have been completely, instead of mostly, forgettable without...