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...Fortunately, the flu pandemic did not materialize. The rate at which people are getting infected is slowing. The rate at which people are dying is decelerating even more. In a few weeks, the pandemic could be down to a few dozen cases. But, the latest caution from the WHO is that these flu viruses can become more virulent over time. No one knows how bad the mutations of the "swine...
...Bernanke's comments about the recession and his reasons for believing that the economy has hit bottom could have been a mimeograph of a dozen other speeches made by Fed chairmen testifying before Congress in times of crisis over the last forty years. Arthur Burns probably made the same speech in 1973 and put it in an envelope for Paul Volker...
...season will include revivals of some past ENO classics, but there will also be a dozen new productions. London has a long history of competing theatrical companies, going all the way back to Shakespeare's day. But when it comes to opera, Berry says, "the days of the ENO being thought of as London's second opera house are over...
...industrial, financial, and retail jobs destroyed over the last three quarters cannot be recouped in the dozen quarters that lie immediately ahead, if Phelps view, which is a remarkably dark vision of America's future, is right. This desperate image of the national economic life assumes that the innovative power of American business cannot build another huge sector the way that it did in the 1970s with the rise of the great technology companies like Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), and Cisco (CSCO), and twenty years later Google (GOOG) and the second reincarnation of Apple (AAPL), which was built on nothing...
...Valonda J. Harris ’09 received the Stride Rite Senior Recognition Prize, a cash award given to students who have demonstrated consistent contributions to public service in their undergraduate careers. Last year, seven of these awards were distributed. Corbin began the event by recognizing about two dozen outstanding seniors, but asked the audience to only acknowledge these students’ achievements in spirit because fewer monetary awards would be distributed than in previous years. The event also featured speeches from three graduating seniors: Grant M. Damon ’09, Nene V. Igietseme...