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...Yale quickly responded with a 10-2 run in a minute and a half to make it 34-24 with 5:38 remaining. “They were really aggressive defensively,” Tay said. “They made it pretty hard to get shots off and hurt our three-point shooting.” Alemany kicked off the five-minute comeback with a mid-range jumper. She then found Emma Markley open in the paint for an easy two points. Still on a run, Alemany intercepted a Yale pass to retain Crimson possession. Tay and Berry capped...
There are obvious reasons to sustain school districts. Obviously, no one wants to increase class sizes or the number of teachers on the unemployment rolls. But education cuts hurt society in subtler ways as well. They can undermine the long-term prosperity of the nation, denying the America of 10 or 20 years from now the well educated workforce it will need. Harvard economics professors Claudia Godin and Lawrence Katz have estimated that increasing education led to a 0.37-percent rise in productivity among American workers since 1915. Education cuts threaten to stifle this growth and jeopardize American productivity...
...Office of Career Services announced that the school will invite firms to campus the last full week of August before classes begin, advancing the recruiting timeline by about a month. Traditionally, the Law School’s recruiting cycle began later than at comparable institutions, which hurt students last October when law firms reduced the number of spots reserved for Harvard recruits in light the impending recession. Fly-out week—the time when students visit firms who have expressed interest in them—is now scheduled for the week of September 14, two weeks after the first...
...national economy in a hurry. And Hill staffers claim that Obama needed the leaders of the various committees to tell him what the bill required to garner enough votes to pass. Either way, the fact that the bill is the product of free-spending congressional committees is likely to hurt Obama. It is defining his first major effort to fix the economy not as a new way of doing business in Washington but as a massive exercise in more of the same...
...move is opposed by most Republicans, and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has demanded that it be stripped from the bill. Major U.S. companies like General Electric and Caterpillar have also opposed the provision, saying it will hurt their ability to win contracts abroad - and impose layers of bureaucracy on what is already likely to be a cumbersome contracting process...