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...Parade, running in New York City since 1924. The holiday spree became so important to retailers that during the Great Depression, they appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to move Thanksgiving up in order to stretch out the holiday shopping season. Roosevelt obliged, moving Thanksgiving one week earlier, but didn't announce the change until October. As a result, Americans had two Thanksgivings that year - Roosevelt's, derisively dubbed "Franksgiving," and the original. Because the switchover was handled so poorly, few observed it, and the change resulted in little economic boost...
...filed charges in court, and trials are likely to begin soon. Raju's lawyer, S. Bharat Kumar, was not available for comment. A spokesman for Satyam, which was purchased by the software arm of Mumbai-based auto conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra earlier this year, declined comment, saying we haven't seen the charge sheet...
This July, Brett C. Sweet, former dean of administration and finance, was named chief financial officer at Vanderbilt after less than a year at Harvard. And a month earlier, University Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst ’82 returned to Wall Street after only a year in his Harvard...
...Alavi Foundation, a non-profit organization that has funded various Harvard programs in Middle Eastern culture and language, faced formal allegations from the U.S. government earlier this month that they had illegally given money and services to the Iranian government in violation of laws that regulate trade with Iran...
...Earlier this month, Lieut. Colonel William F. McCullough, commanding officer of the 1-5 U.S. Marines in Afghanistan's Helmand province, took part in an exercise in insurgent reintegration. He rose from a dusty couch and extended his hand to one Abdul Khalik, whom his men had detained for the previous three days on suspicion of insurgent activities...