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...Sports do benefit from a buffer against recession. Leagues are in the midst of long-term television-rights deals whose terms are already locked in (baseball, for example, has a contract with Fox, TBS and ESPN that expires in 2013). And there are some positive economic indicators. New York Mets vice president David Howard says the 49 luxury boxes for the team's new stadium, which are priced between $250,000 and $500,000, have already sold out. That's an impressive achievement, given the bad economy and the team's second straight horrific collapse down the stretch...
...officials have said that the date may be pushed back if financial difficulties hamper fundraising efforts. Faust cited efforts to ensure loan access for international students in her discussion of the University’s response to the crisis. Graduating students facing employment searches in a troubled economy will benefit from bolstered career counseling, she also said. “We need to be alert to what the impact of the financial situation might be on those around us, and we need to be ready to help,” Faust said, calling for increased communication between Faculty members...
...glance for healthy choices was inherently problematic. In a way, instead of demystifying Chickwiches and ranger cookies, the cards took attention away from the food itself in favor of abstract numbers; the overwhelming distress the cards caused for people with serious eating concerns far outweighed the “benefit...
...able-bodied guilt as well.” However, the introduction of the packet explicitly states, “The emphasis is not on finding ‘right answers,” but on figuring out where you stand on an issue and articulating your position for the benefit of the group.” At no point does the committee seem to attack one particular group or label one as right and another as wrong. It may be this focus toward asking questions rather than providing answers that led Waite to conclude that the reading were not coherent...
...presentation by encouraging Harvard students to join Proyecto Espartaco, a “wiki for human rights” he has been working on to help Latin American human rights groups share information. He said his hope is to harness the tremendous resources of American students for the benefit of the movement. The event’s participants—many of whom were Cambridge residents not affiliated with Harvard—expressed positive reactions to the presentation. Panagiotis Angelopoulos ’12, who came to the talk because of his own interest in Latin American human rights, said...