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When Lockhart reported for duty at Kerry headquarters, the first thing he did was pick a fight--the one the campaign had been avoiding for months. Kerry's shifting answers on Iraq had become more than a damage-control problem. When the candidate had fallen into Bush's August trap, the truth he had been trying to outrun since he slipped past Howard Dean in the primaries finally caught up with him: his position on Iraq was incomprehensible to anybody who wasn't a regular lunch guest at the Council on Foreign Relations, and it was getting more so every...
...have a confession to make. After three and a half years of exploring the arts, trying my hand at editorial writing and involving myself in Harvard’s academic centers, I have fallen prey to on-campus recruiting, which every year clutches numerous seniors in its unforgiving grip. I have long disdained and derided the whole process: a child of artists from San Francisco, I could never imagine myself on Wall Street in a tailored suit and prim pumps. Yet I have succumbed to the pressures to find a competitive, high-paying...
...wise investment? Start by looking at dividend yield--the annual payout divided by the stock price. Still, betting on a company solely because it carries a high yield is risky. In mid-October, for instance, department-store company Saks offered a dividend yield above 16%. But the stock had fallen 33% over the previous six months, and uneven sales trends have dogged the company for the past two years. This may turn out to be a spectacular opportunity for investors--but it carries significant uncertainties. Franklin's Felicelli suggests zeroing in on large blue-chip companies with a history...
Davis, who played football at Middlebury College, concedes that he could probably make more money by shipping all his production overseas. He has increased his domestic payroll by 65% since 1995, adding some 500 blue collar jobs, but the percentage of New Balance shoes assembled in the U.S. has fallen by half as Davis has ramped up production in Asia and at a plant in England to keep up with sales...
While there are approximately 10,000 a capella groups within a 100-mile radius of Cambridge, the Fallen Angels are Harvard’s only all-female group with a modern repertoire. Come see their Fall Concert with the Columbia Kingsmen and the Gumboots Dance Troupe featuring songs by a wide range of artists from Marvin Gaye to Michelle Branch. Free. 7:00 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland Street...