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Under Bok, Harvard has tried to use its financial and educational influence to bring about constructive change in the United States and abroad. Nevertheless, in the grand tradition of isolation he has naively maintained that the university should not compromise its preeminent commitment to graduating educated men and women...
Central bankers had been hesitant to bring down interest rates, partly because they worried about overheating their economies and rekindling inflation. But the plunge in oil prices in recent months has made the inflation threat much more remote...
Lower interest rates, and the faster growth they bring, will be a welcome tonic for the U.S. economy. Last week the Labor Department announced that unemployment jumped in February from 6.7% to 7.3%. Most of the increase, however, occurred in three states: California, Texas and Illinois. California's farm economy was disrupted by recent floods, Texas' oil business was decimated by falling petroleum prices, and Illinois lost many manufacturing jobs...
...Cinq's programming is following Berlusconi's successful formula, with several Italian-produced game shows, movies like Saturday Night Fever and such U.S. series as Flamingo Road and Murder, She Wrote. Berlusconi insists that La Cinq "will bring in new blood and raise the level of professionalism on all the other networks." Though opening night drew mixed reviews ("Clumsy," declared Liberation, an independent Paris daily), ratings were good: an estimated 62% of the Paris audience watched at least one minute of the programming...
...Fortune" producers will bring a mock-up of the set to Princeton during the week of March 27, when 200 Tiger fortune hunters will vie for a chance to make a pilgrimage to the Los Angeles studio. Host Pat Sajak and cult-figure hostess Vanna White will not make a trip to the New Jersey campus, however...