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Harvard has not escaped the recession. President Faust sent an e-mail last Wednesday to the Harvard community detailing just how grim the state of the endowment is. To compensate for the loss of at least $8 billion, Harvard has understandably chosen to cut down its staff. While it is unfortunate that some may lose their jobs due to the impending cuts, Harvard must be fiscally responsible and carefully define its priorities in such times...
...asking these questions not because we should bend to the tyranny of the majority, to the citizens of this nation who look on art dubiously, but rather because the potential of backlash highlights the grim predicament that the arts currently face. Right now, we are stranded in the midst of the recession. Brandeis is liquidating its art holdings and closing its Rose Art Museum. The publishing industry is disappearing faster than Bernard Madoff’s money. And, as we descend further into economic chaos, the situation of the arts can only be supposed to get worse. We must make...
Suleman, Nadya • father of questions "mental situation" of • hostile reaction of tens of thousands of total strangers to prompts grim assessment by newly resigned publicists for ("They want to rip her uterus...
...alone won't do that job, and Obama knows it. "I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region, solely through military means," he told an interviewer. But more soldiers are needed, if only to stop the grim litany of bad news from Afghanistan getting worse. With sanctuaries across the border in Pakistan--which the government there seems in no hurry to close down--and with a growing acceptance of the Taliban's strength in Afghanistan, militants have the wind at their back. They welcomed U.S. envoy Richard...
While the guidelines might seem overly broad--by that measure, many researchers or financial analysts who log long hours on the Internet could be considered addicts--that hasn't stopped anxious parents like Wang from dragging their children to Tao's camp, a grim four-story building in Beijing's main military compound. Once checked in, most patients are required to stay for three months, isolated from the outside world, without access to cell phones and, of course, computers. Parents of patients at the Internet-addiction center have to stay for several weeks of treatment too, since, according...