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A celebration of a report released today which found that eight area research universities pump 7.4 billion dollars into the area’s economy, the meeting was a rare convention of the leaders of Harvard, MIT, Tufts University, Boston University (B.U.) and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
When Third District Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., announced that he would not seek a Senate spot at the party’s annual convention Saturday, Glickman’s name quickly surfaced as a potential frontrunner for the nomination.
DIED. ORVILLE FREEMAN, 84, ex-Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; in Minneapolis. After supporting Hubert Humphrey's failed bid, he gave Kennedy's nominating speech at the 1960 Democratic Convention. Later, in his White House post, he...
Look at the gravestones for websites peddling financial news: Thestreet.co.uk (falco, geekspeak for "belly-up"), FTMarketWatch.com (quietly falcoed into the Financial Times' main site). But surprise: Breakingviews - a three-year-old, London-based site offering financial commentary, claims to be actually making money. Editor Hugo Dixon, a veteran journalist who...
George W. Bush lives at the intersection of faith and inexperience. This is not a reassuring address, especially in a time of trouble. His public utterances are often measured and elegant, but there are frequent and rather grating lapses too. There is a tendency to ricochet between piety and puerility...