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...transgender population from the rest of Harvard by forcing transgender students to publicly identify as gender-neutral individuals. This scenario could unfairly subject these students to even further alienation and prejudice than previously existed. Given that mixed gender housing is a matter of desire and not a matter of dire need, prioritizing a single group’s interest over the rest of the student body’s would be a step backward on the part of college administrators. Separate is never equal—it is minority interests, in fact, who should know this best. By prioritizing...
Since early 2000, economists have been sounding the housing bubble alarm with increasing urgency. And while many markets around the country have seen prices drop in the last year, the dire, across-the-board correction that many predicted has yet to materialize...
...Clearly, this is not a picture of a population obsessed with dire financial scenarios. In coming years, this shift to a culture of consumption can be counted on to boost Chinese imports, contributing to more balanced global trade and putting Messrs. Paulson and Bernanke more at ease. Meanwhile, the aspirations of Chinese to improve their living standards, seek better education for their children, invest their growing wealth in new ways and savor a more worldly lifestyle will present huge opportunities for companies nimble enough to take advantage of this profound cultural change...
...grandson of Nathan Straus Jr., is hardly surprised by the YIVO file's unveiling. Within his family circle, the efforts of his grandparents to help the Franks are widely known, he says. "Despite the efforts of individuals to do the right thing and rescue people in dire circumstances, they were unsuccessful except in isolated cases," he says. What is striking, he adds, is that regardless of the "vigorous efforts of someone as well positioned as my grandfather, he was unsuccessful here...
...break and drew howls of anger from the crowd. At that point, Valkin says, he began to feel cramps coming on in his quadriceps. He was promptly broken, and during the side change, he lay stomach-down on the court, getting stretched by the trainer. Things looked dire, but Valkin fought through, breaking his opponent back and then holding his own serve to go up 6-5. “Ultimately, [getting cramps] was a blessing in disguise,” Valkin said. “I was still really nervous at the end, but I just couldn?...