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...site beforehand, download the MP3, synchronize their watches, and show up Saturday afternoon ready to get down. Ondi Gottesman, who graduated from Brandeis University last year, provided the vocals on the mysterious dance track and helped to organize the event, hoping to up the cool-factor of Boston student activities. “This was just a reaction to seeing events like these going on in larger cities,” says Gottesman. “Boston was missing out, even though it has the largest college-age population of any city.” Harvard students, often in search...
...every time Israel has used a heavy hand in Lebanon in the past, it resulted in increased support for Hizballah. Even as Hizballah girds for another confrontation with Israel, however, its leaders will have to factor in the limits of endurance among its war-weary Shi'ite supporters...
...Iraq had feared that Sadr would nix the cease-fire, a move likely to set off another round of sectarian violence and reverse many of the gains of the U.S. troop surge. But U.S. officials had expected that Sadr would maintain the pause, which has been a major factor in bringing down the overall level of violence in Iraq. Sadr had sent some signals to the Americans suggesting he was likely to extend the cease-fire. And U.S. officials, such as Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, believe that the Shi'ite firebrand may be changing his ways...
...default are nearly always due to loss of job or a 'life event' such as health problems (and medical bills), death or divorce," wrote analyst Chris Brendler of Stifel Nicolaus in a January report. Today's unemployment rate has yet to cause alarm, but it's the X factor that could determine how much worse credit-card defaults may get as recession looms...
...worth investing in new oil fields or in building thousands more oil refineries - projects that cost billions of dollars and can take about seven years of work before any new oil is sold. That decision turned out to be a bad miscalculation, say analysts. It ignored the biggest factor that has sent the world's oil demand soaring - the economic boom in China and, to a lesser extent, India. "No one saw this coming down the line 10 years ago," says Harry Tchilinguirian, senior oil market analyst for BNP Paribas in London. "You have to look at where demand growth...