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...reality. “I actually found the other employees to be really negative, and it seemed to me like the management was in a bit of turmoil,” said M. Amelia Muller ’11, who worked at Everything’s Jake for a brief period last year. Muller added that she also worked at a Life is good store in her hometown of Greenville, S.C. which, though still open, is also struggling. Some shoppers at the closeout sale were wary of purchasing the products, despite slashed prices. Mariana Toledo, a Cambridge resident...
...Going forward, it would do the community good to have adequate—or even more than adequate—facilities in which to live and thrive during their four brief years in the academe. However, in evaluating the possibilities for this expansion, the university must also beware of the gifts it seeks—there may be more than a few strings attached...
...White House deliberations, will place DeParle squarely in her comfort zone, not in front of television cameras but in backrooms wrestling with the extraordinarily complex details of remaking a broken health-delivery system. "We're going to get to work," announced Obama as soon as DeParle had finished her brief remarks on Monday. And then the new health czar walked away from the podium, through ornamented White House doors and out of the public...
...Pakistani militant group," says retired general turned analyst Talat Masood. "Whether it is Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Mohammed, I can't say." Sri Lankan officials say the Tamil Tigers, who are behind an insurgency in their own country, are not believed to be responsible. (Read TIME's brief history of the Tamil Tigers...
...Last Wednesday, Beijing's Commerce Minister Chen Deming arrived in Germany with executives from about 90 Chinese companies, on a multi-billion-dollar shopping trip around Europe. The delegates signed more than $10 billion worth of deals in Germany alone, and another $400,000 worth of deals on a brief stop in Switzerland. Next stop was Spain, where the Chinese party bought about $320 million worth of goods ranging from auto parts to olive oil. Finally, in Britain they signed deals worth about $2 billion, including ordering 13,000 Jaguar cars. And while thousands of German auto workers marched...