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...staff were the smallest of small potatoes in NCAA recruiting violations, even if they had proven to be true. Just as claims about Harvard’s “lowering of academic standards” for basketball are overblown—the Crimson’s Academic Index for men’s basketball during Frank Sullivan’s tenure was well above the Ivy average, and regressing to the Ivy mean hardly constitutes a sacrifice of academic principles—concerns about Amaker’s recruiting are unjustified. Other Ivy schools should be concerned about...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BRAD AS I WANNA BE: Recruits Bring Hope to Crimson | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...index is lately yielding more than Treasuries, be it the T-bill, the five-year note or the 10 year. This is quite rare, but is it significant? Whenever the dividend yield on the S&P 500 rises above 3%, which it has, that's significant, even if it's not above the 10-year Treasury. It says stocks are attractive. That said, we are very cautious about what to own in this market. Bottom line: If you can find high-quality companies - meaning they have a good balance sheet and provide yield - we think for the long-term investor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Stock Market Headed Back Down? | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...tackle the burgeoning obesity epidemic, particularly among children. In the same journal, the first national survey of childhood obesity to include American-Indian and Asian ethnic groups found that 18% of 4-year-olds in the U.S. are obese, or in the 95th percentile of body-mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height. That percentage is almost doubled among American-Indian children, 31% of whom are obese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids Who Lack Self-Control More Prone to Obesity Later | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...stopped falling, the housing market has begun showing some signs of bouncing along a bottom (not so much in prices yet as in sales volume), and manufacturing's free fall has moderated somewhat. The stock market has of course been on a tear, with the S&P 500 index up 20% since early March. But while the market is a leading indicator, it can be an extremely unreliable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment Rise Shows Recession Far from Over | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...class committee only teased curious 09-ers to visit www.harvard09.com, the class website which, much to everyone's annoyance, crashed as too many index fingers clicked the provided...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Class Day Speaker Announced...Sort Of | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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