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Over the course of five years, the number of psychology concentrators swelled from 282 in 1995 to 427 in 2000. Although the department has made a valiant attempt to keep up with this new interest, it has nevertheless fallen short. This year, scores of seniors will thus not be able to write theses, forced to conclude their undergraduate educations without the culminating experience of year-long original research projects...
Much ink has been devoted to describing how Steinbrenner’s crew has received its comeuppance after corporate money fueled four titles, but I’ve read little to honor the fallen champs. Simply beholding a friend’s wall of pictures dedicated to capturing Yankee misery after their loss was enough to make me want to defend them...
With little pass rush and less talent and experience in the secondary, the Crimson has fallen prey to opposing teams’ aerial attacks. Opponents have been able to find seams in the Crimson’s coverages and march the ball down the field. Harvard ranks second to last in the Ivy League, giving up an average of 261 yards in the air, and allowing opponents to complete over 56 percent of their passes...
...down 24% from the same period last year, and the depression isn't merely commercial. For the first time in recent memory, there's genuine apathy among fans and a sense that the music isn't what it used to be. LL Cool J--whose career has risen and fallen but seldom dipped below platinum--suddenly finds himself the genre's wisest head. "There are a lot of limits that people place on rap and rappers nowadays," says LL. "Some of those limits come from record companies, but a lot of them come from rappers themselves. They're afraid...
...Euro-Asia is raked through the muck, the concern now is that other listed private Chinese companies will be splattered. A UBS Warburg index of 20 of these so-called "private chips" has fallen 10% since it was inaugurated in January 2001. That's far less than the 45% fall of Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index. But p-chips plunged three percentage points since the Yang scandal broke. Because of the lack of transparency and secrecy among Mainland companies, "it is quite difficult to sort out which are the reliable ones and which are the crooks," says Willis...