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...themselves—to instill eco-friendly values. “We think it shows great visible commitment to the cause,” says Walter. “And we believe that if you bike in college, you’ll bike for life. It can become a habit...
...last time we realized the financial system had sold us out-this was way back in 2001/2002-one of the results was a half-a-billion-dollar settlement with Wall Street's stock analysts. As you might recall, investment banks had a bad habit of issuing overly rosy opinions of companies, particularly the ones the banks were courting for other sorts of business. Twelve companies, including Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, J.P. Morgan Chase and UBS agreed to pay a collective $432.5 million for research to be produced by dozens of independent, outside companies and distributed...
Some teams simply thrive in the clutch, and the Harvard softball squad is one of them.Starting with a walkoff win in the first game of the season, the Crimson has made a habit of delivering thrilling late-inning victories.And heading into the final weekend of the regular season, Harvard (25-14, 10-6 Ivy) is exactly where it wants to be—in a close battle with time running out.Its bats are hot, its pitching is dominant, and in this weekend’s home-and-home series with division leader Dartmouth (20-18, 11-5 Ivy), the Crimson?...
...Hawass is no stranger to hyperbole. Known for sporting an Indiana Jones style hat and his habit of ending up in front of cameras, the 61-year-old native of the Nile Delta town of Damietta is the government-appointed custodian of Egypt's monuments and the greatest promoter of its mysteries. Archaeological expeditions don't take place without his agency's sanction (and more than a few foreign Egyptologists have been frozen out of work as a result); any sensational discovery is invariably announced by him. "In Egypt," Hawass writes on his personal website, "archaeologists are bigger than movie...
Whether it's "tobacco revisionism," as critics contend, or political correctness à la française, things have just gotten tougher for smokers in France - including those who've long kicked the habit in death. Métrobus, the company that handles display advertising for the Paris Métro and SNCF rail company, says it was obliged to refuse a poster for Coco, Before Chanel because it violates a 1991 law "prohibiting all direct or indirect advertising" for tobacco or alcohol in most public venues. Under that ban, Métrobus reasoned that the poster's shot...