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Graduate students at Harvard are not alone in facing rising interest rates on their student loans after Citigroup, the struggling financial services giant, cancelled a program designed to make it easier for international students to receive loans...
...They were friendly and seemed optimistic about it counting,” Mumma said. “It made my life easier, and it meant that I could take a very good class for a Core...
...like flannel-wearing robots at a sausage shop. You must act! Act, by Gott!” And act they did. Under pressure and in undesirable circumstances, the singers began to gesture and express and emote as they hadn’t done before, and, paradoxically, the story became easier to understand than it had been in the prior acts, when the audience had translations to guide them but no raw emotion to move them. If only more such happy disasters had come along to save this production from its inconsistent, passionless self...
...With almost four centuries’ worth of experience and a pantheon of brilliant graduates, it can be easy to anoint this institution, and to thus accept its occasional indictments as gospel. I would submit this resignation becomes still much easier to do when Harvard has not had much in the way of criticism for us—how dare we question a system that has so rewarded...
...That's easier said than done when the stock market's evolution is so central to a global economy facing a slow-down - or possible recession. And as this week wound down, observers of both markets and wider economies seemed uncertain whether to applaud or cry. Following dismal sessions Wednesday and Thursday, activity on Asian indices Friday was mixed, with Toyko's Nikkei up 2.2% aside more modest gains in Singapore and China. Hong Kong's Hang Seng remained flat, however, while South Korea and Australia slightly slumped. Inspired by that trend - as well as Wall Street's rebound from...