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Best Buy's doorbuster specials drew large Black Friday crowds with customer lines snaking around the block at many of its stores in the wee hours of the morning. Other retailers, such as Staples, Radio Shack, GameStop and hhgregg, also reaped benefits from the electronics frenzy, notes Credit Suisse analyst Gary Balter. Many offered sharp discounts on gadgets, ranging from laptops and high-definition TVs to GPS devices and e-readers, as they jockeyed to fill the void left by the demise of Circuit City in the past year. "There is an insatiable hunger for these devices and they make...
University President Drew G. Faust said she will begin to assemble a faculty search committee soon to look for a new dean, with the goal of having a successor in place by the time Light leaves in June...
...book, titled “The Cartoons That Shook the World,” has itself emerged as a point of controversy. Yale University Press, the book’s publisher, decided this August to omit the original cartoons for fear of provoking a resurgence in violence. The move drew the ire of the editorial boards of The Washington Post and The New York Post among others. “In effect, Yale University Press is allowing violent extremists to set the terms of free speech,” wrote the Post’s editorial staff...
...privileged people is of no larger significance. But some have gifts that realistically could be expected to lead to world-changing breakthroughs, cures, or innovations; greater respect for politics; even to hundreds of profoundly moved and inspired students. Moreover, this reflects something far more pervasive. Consider President Drew G. Faust’s recent laments for the increasingly material, instrumental ambitions of so many of her students. She has noted the steep national decline in the percentage of students majoring in liberal arts and sciences since the 1970s, with a dramatic rise in undergraduate interest in business. At Harvard, economics...
...head-turning nightclub promoter who first drew notice after the tragedy of Sept. 11 is back in the news - but she's attracting a very different kind of attention. According to a claim in the National Enquirer, Rachel Uchitel has been having an affair with golf star Tiger Woods since June. Uchitel and Woods have denied the claim but have been unable to prevent widespread Internet chatter, which speculates that the jet-setting 34-year-old was the source of a fight between Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren that led to the golfer's crashing his SUV outside...