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...Whether this truce will last, however, is anyone's guess. In a sign that it could be over already, the headquarters of the state-owned energy company Naftogaz, which answers to Tymoshenko, were raided on Wednesday by armed agents from the state security service, the SBU, which is controlled by Yushchenko. The SBU says it is investigating Naftogaz for "misappropriating" gas that belongs to private energy company RosUkrEnergy; Tymoshenko says the SBU is being used by a "corrupt group" in a fight for gas she says belongs to Ukraine. "There's no such thing as a truce between cats...
...economics professor Kenneth S. Rogoff wrote in an e-mail yesterday that he found Barro’s analysis “highly informative” and “certainly more credible” than quantitative economic forecasts circulated by the Federal Reserve. “I would guess that the risk of the US having a Japan-style lost decade, where the economy goes in and out of recession for years on end, is more likely than the risk of a catastrophic double-digit output collapse,” Rogoff wrote. Rogoff also expressed the need...
...Prince and all the Crimson veterans recognize, though, there is more at stake for the team than simple enjoyment. While the squad looks to forget a dismal 2008, Prince points to the motivational effect of lingering disappointment.“I’d venture a guess that [last year was] the toughest season that any of us have been through,” he reflects. “This year’s a lot about going out and competing with a chip on our shoulder, remembering how bad that was and not wanting to do it again...
While Harvard workers are rallying outside of Mass. Hall, guess who's rallying to unionize at Yale? Grad students. Long oppressed by a dismal job market, Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization is campaigning for the eighth year in the row for the university to recognize them as a union. They are no fringe group either: over half of Yale's grad students...
...would guess a fair majority of people in the country have filled out at least one bracket (to the percent that hasn’t: you haven’t lived yet). It’s a beautiful community thing for anyone to talk about. Hopefully, two weeks from now, when people want to start conversations they’ll ask “who is in your Final Four?” instead of “are you writing a thesis?” or “what are you doing next year...