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...people are making brownies instead of buying them. Fresh-meat sales rose 7.3%, vegetables and dry grains were up 5.5%, dry pasta 4.4% and cheese 3.1%. Wine and liquor were also up. People aren't heading out for alcohol, but they still want to drink at home. In these bleak days, self-medication is certainly in style...
...prevailing fog that has occluded the administration’s plans for J-term lifted momentarily this past weekend, but the forecast looks bleak nonetheless. At a question-and-answer session for junior parents this past Friday, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris informed parents that housing at the College during January of next year—which will no longer host reading period or exams—might only be granted to international students, athletes, and other special-interest groups. This sudden revelation is emblematic of the disturbing mixed signals that the student body is now receiving about...
...letter last month to the Harvard community, Faust announced that the construction of the $1 billion science complex would be slowed following bleak projections for the University’s endowment that could plummet as much as 30% in the year ending on June...
...sell for more. “Given all of the college and graduate school alumni harboring intense Yale pride, I think that these sneakers will do very well,” Crooks added. Chau said he intended to push his venture ahead even in what has lately been a bleak consumer climate. “I don’t care if we do anything more than break even,” he said. “So long as college students are wearing our shoes and enjoying the increased sense of school spirit and pride...
...Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” trash can-dwelling Nell says in the American Repertory Theatre’s current production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame.” Indeed, the bleak world and hopeless characters become darkly, sadly funny and wholly human in the hands of a capable team of actors and designers headed by director Marcus Stern. The phenomenal acting, skillful directing, and stunning creative vision of the play—which runs through March 15 at the Loeb Drama Center—produce a near-perfect experience of Beckett?...