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...fear is that additional recession-fighting measures planned by the Aso government will be sidetracked by Japan's chronic legislative infighting and revolving political leadership (the country is now on its fifth finance chief and third Prime Minister in two years). Japan's parliament, the Diet, has for the past several weeks been debating legislation surrounding a supplementary budget package that includes a controversial $21.7 billion handout to the Japanese public aimed at boosting consumer spending. But DPJ politicians - smelling blood in anticipation of general elections, which must be held by September but could come before then - might choose...
...bloody battleground of national dailies, all clawing at one another. Competition breeds creativity, not to mention a willingness to live with slimmer profits. "The U.S. lost the beat on newspapers around the year 2000," says Vin Crosbie, a partner at media-consulting firm Digital Deliverance and the fifth generation of a Connecticut newspaper-owning family. "I'm just amazed that most U.S. newspapers update their websites once a day. In Norway, if there's a car crash, they update the whole paper...
...Harvard wins today, the worst overall the team can place is fourth. However, if the team falls to Cornell, the best it can do is fifth place. The Crimson’s hope to clinch a top-three finish hinges on victory in its first-round contest...
...originally from Waterbury, Conn., is a history concentrator in Kirkland House and the editor emeritus of The Harvard Salient. “Conservative” in habit and disposition, but not in ideology, his column, “Modernity and Its Discontents,” returns for a fifth and final semester. It will critically survey the absurdities and excesses of the postmodern Academy on alternate Thursdays...
...flag: the cupcake I ate most recently—from Kickass Cupcakes in Davis Square on the day of my last final.Chocolate cupcakes baked in ice cream cones: the cupcakes my blockmates baked for my 21st birthday.Cupcake04: my first ever AOL screen name, based on the brilliance of my fifth-grade mind.I like to think of myself as a cupcake connoisseur. Those childhood delicacies that perk you up with one look at their frosting mound and colorful details. I don’t remember the first time I ate a cupcake as a child (but I can remember...