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...bust slumps by donning women's underwear, eating the same meal each day and performing elaborate foul-line rituals - talk of a Madden Curse doesn't seem to have caught much traction. And for good reason. Most of the under-performing cover stars were felled by injury - a common affliction in a brutally rough sport: According to a 2005 study, nearly 70% of football players suffer an injury each year. Those whose skills seemed to dwindle during their cover season may simply have peaked quickly in a sport whose shelf lives are disconcertingly brief...
...odds of a GM deal with bondholders may be more bleak. As part of its offer to bondholders, presented Monday, GM is offering to exchange 225 common shares for each $1,000 of principal amount of bonds. The offer covers $27.5 billion of bonds, and based on the recent price of GM stock would result in bondholders receiving less than 40% of a bond's original face value. GM's chief executive Fritz Henderson described the terms of the offer as "stern." For the swap to take place 90% of the bondholders must accept the offer. If that percentage...
...common wisdom says Facebook's move is part of the cat-and-mouse game the world's most-popular social network is playing with Twitter, the world's most popular micromessaging service. That may be partly true, but I doubt Facebook is all that worried about weetle-ol' Twitter. No, something more important is afoot: Facebook is embracing the AfterWeb and blowing up the browser. It is unbundling its website-based business and allowing developers to turn Facebook into a bunch of discrete services that can be delivered over a variety of devices (from PCs to smartphones) far more easily...
...these critical evaluations. While students here at the College often fret about their grades, it is important to remember that faculty and teaching fellows also welcome feedback. Indeed, it is a critical component of improving the quality of teaching here at Harvard, especially in departments where large classes are common, like economics and government. As such, we view this new system as a much-needed method of improving student participation rates, which have been less than optimal for many classes (including both huge lecture courses and small seminars). In particular, we hope that, by providing a powerful incentive to those...
...recognition for discovering the sixth most common protein in the blood in 1979 and has spent 30 years trying to unravel its function...