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...doubled in two years to about $800,000?perhaps a third of what it would cost in Hong Kong, but hardly a steal. In some luxury buildings, prices had surged by 45% in six months, fueled by low mortgage rates, expectations among foreign buyers that China's currency will gain against the U.S. dollar and by widespread fear of missing out on this historic bonanza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betting on the Shanghai Boom | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

Once they gain admittance into the club, the video shifts into vibrant color a la “The Wizard of Oz,” and the kids’ ringleader initiates a highly stylized fight/dance with another clown-faced patron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POP SCREEN | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...decade ago, while Jenkins was working at the Harvard Coop, he conceived the idea of a comedy venue that feels like “a comedian’s club that lets the audience come in.” In its initial years, the Comedy Studio did not gain instant success, with audiences numbering as few as six. Nevertheless, Jenkins refused and continues to refuse to advertise, in order to maintain the more cloistered aura of a comedian’s club...

Author: By Beau C. Robicheaux, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE HOT SPOT: The Comedy Studio | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...first time in the history of the Ivy League, grad students and researchers at two campuses are standing up together to demand contracts, more benefits, and better stipends,” said Erik Goldner, a member of the Graduate Student Employees United (GSEU), the group at Columbia trying to gain union recognition from the university...

Author: By May Habib and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Yale, Columbia Students To Strike | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...excellent idea, we also encourage the CEA to look into ways that Harvard can improve its international resources—whether property or academic partnerships—and increase the academic rigor of study abroad programs. We also urge the CEA to focus on alternative ways for students to gain international experience outside of studying abroad during the semester. A step in the right direction, it is now up to Harvard’s administration to fund these new initiatives so that every Harvard student, science concentrator or humanities concentrator, rich or poor, American or foreign, has the opportunity...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Over There | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

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