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Dating at Harvard can be bleak, but the creators of an upcoming reality tv show are hoping to provide a spark of hope. The new show, “Love @ Harvard” produced by Harvard-Radcliffe Television is the brainchild of Executive Producer Emma R. Coleman ’09 and will bring together eligible bachelors and bachelorettes in a style reminiscent of the ABC 1960s show “The Dating Game.” “Love @ Harvard,” which Coleman hopes to launch in November, is based on the previous HRTV production...
...wonder, then, that the forthcoming U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Pakistan reportedly makes "bleak" reading. The NIE represents the consensus of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, and according to a McClatchy newspapers report, an official familiar with the contents of the document that will brief the next President says it warns that Pakistan has "no money, no energy, no government". Washington's primary concern remains al-Qaeda, which John Kringen, the CIA's director for intelligence, recently described as being "resurgent" and "well-settled" in Pakistan's tribal areas. But the presence of Bin Laden's group is enabled...
...bleak economic situation has prompted Pakistan to desperately seek aid from such long-term allies as Saudi Arabia, Britain, the U.S. and China. Despite Zardari flying to those countries in recent weeks to make his case, he has yet to secure the loans needed to avoid a default on Pakistan's debt. Pakistani officials insist that they have no intention of defaulting, and the Pakistani rupee rose this week amid signs that the International Monetary Fund might step in to rescue this frontline state in the war on terror. The IMF confirmed Wednesday that it would soon enter discussions with...
...Well, au contraire, mes amis. For one thing, this is a comedy about despair, as funny as it is bleak, and a complexly woven study of an unraveling soul. Kaufman didn't live (and die) this story, he made it up; and then he directed it, supervising a community of actors and artisans that must have numbered in the hundreds. More important, though, is the effect it should have on a receptive audience. No film with an ambition this large, and achievement this impressive, can be anything but exhilarating, a vital affirmation of the creative process...
...while the public stock offerings that made the London Stock Exchange an international shooting star have fizzled. Given the role played by arcane financial engineering in triggering the current crisis--the troubles at AIG, for example, stem largely from its freewheeling London financial-products division--the future looks especially bleak for people working in structured finance and complex derivatives. No surprise, then, that HSBC, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and others have started cutting staff...