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...exception to an important rule. Presently, Harvard claims that HUPD is something of a private militia and that public records laws therefore do not apply to it. Of course, it’s true that Harvard foots the bill for the department, but the University has no authority to confer the characteristics that make it a “police department.” HUPD officers individually, rather than collectively, enjoy police powers—the authority to stop, question, detain, formally arrest, use force, and interrogate suspects—not because University Hall wills...
...calligraphy or quality of the paper on which something was written can also confer extra value. "As we head toward a paperless society that communicates in an abbreviated, computer-generated style," says Debbie Gordon, founder of Snappy Auctions in Nashville, Tenn., "many people are drawn to the attention to detail in penmanship, expression and beauty of paper that reveals a slower way of life." And eBay, along with eBay drop-off centers for those who don't want to run an auction themselves, has made selling ephemera easier than ever...
While Dixit emphasized the flexibility of an economics major, Siegfried emphasized that trends in numbers of economics concentrators nationwide do not correlate with the perception that the degree will confer an edge in the job market. His research has not substantiated that the difficulty of finding a job is linked to economics degrees...
...perhaps a fifth of what was needed, says media investor Harold Vogel, author of Entertainment Industry Economics. But the backbreaker has been DVD sales, where many films now derive most of their profit. Moviemakers are so beholden to retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy that studio execs routinely confer with them before setting release dates. There are so many new releases that retailers afford each a much shorter shelf life. And with 80% of U.S. households owning DVD players, fewer people are rushing out to replace their old tapes--slowing DVD sales. Those shifts have made forecasting sales difficult...
...were poring over tapes of closed-circuit television (cctv) footage taken at King's Cross on the day of the bombings. They soon had a match. One tape showed a man who resembled Hussain talking with three other men at around 8:20 a.m. On the tape, the men confer briefly, then go their separate ways. At 8:50, the first three bombs went off. Police quickly pieced together the men's previous movements. A cctv camera had recorded them earlier that morning at Luton, 45 km north of London, where they caught a train to King's Cross. They...