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Every Harvard student is provided with copies of the CUE Guide and The Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard--just another example of how students at Harvard are constantly spoon-fed opportunities to "maximize their potential." For overachievers, here's the next in the series: Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, a new instructional book written by Richard J. Light, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, based on interviews with Harvard students...
...That's a load off the Fed's mind, as was the University of Michigan's report that consumer confidence actually went up for a change in the first weeks of March, rising to 91.8 from 90.6 in February and topping forecasts for a drop to 89.5. Both reports will figure heavily in the Fed's calculations as it readies for its March 20 meeting. TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl reads the tea leaves...
...Fridays are usually bad in a down market like this, because nobody wants to go into the weekend with a stable of losers. But consumer sentiment has been a major concern of Greenspan's for a while, and when good news came traders suddenly got worried that the Fed wouldn't feel as much need to cut interest rates if the confidence numbers were turning around...
...bottom line," Gifford said, "is that we're really fed up with these people, that they can't get their act together and we definitely want more suspensions and even a revocation of the license...they don't seem to understand that you mean business and that we mean business and what will make them understand that. It's just inexcusable...
...continues. Checkpoints in Chechnya and the territory's borders are pretty porous, and guerrillas appear to be able to move around. The hardest thing to be right now is an ordinary Chechen without work or shelter. If you're a guerrilla fighter, chances are you're a lot better fed, clothed and funded than your civilian counterpart. And you're probably a lot more confident about the future...