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...call for deeper, more specific Harvard investment in the community echoed concerns raised throughout the formal public comments on the report. The 90-day comment period ended Monday. “The community benefits described in the DPIR are inadequate and vague,” wrote Allston resident Jeffrey Bryan. “[I]t is not understandable why they couldn’t have made at least a half hearted attempt at a decent benefits package commensurate with the years of negative impacts they are subjugating the neighborhood.” Bryan’s comment also reflected increasing...
...Street Journal transcript of his speech. “A sharp reduction in the interest rate, in addition to a vigorous lender of last resort policy, would attenuate that very bad outcome,” he added. But there is discord in the academic community. Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Miron feels the rate should be left alone because Bernanke has long emphasized the importance of controlling inflation. “While I don’t have all the information [Bernanke] has, I think the inflation targeting approach is a reasonable goal,” he said...
...Nelson's theory has been picked apart by two veterans of the field who could be said to favor a more spiritual view of NDEs. In a recent issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, Americans Jeffrey Long and Janice Miner Holden argue that since 40% of NDErs in Nelson's study denied ever having had an episode of REM intrusion, the idea that it underlies NDEs "seems questionable at best...
...broken clipper ship mysteriously appeared in the town's little lake. How it got there and what would happen if the people of Yole rebuilt it are the secrets at the center of the novel Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats, by TIME senior editor Jeffrey Kluger. Author of several other books including the best seller Apollo 13, Kluger is making his first venture into young-adult fiction. Publishers Weekly calls the book "a fully imagined fantasy with a twist of magic...
...Whale Rider went on to earn a respectable $20 million at the U.S. box office as well as an Oscar nomination for its young star, Keisha Castle-Hughes. Even if a festival goer doesn't like a movie at Toronto, it's possible to leave politely, says Jeffrey Wells, who blogs about movies on Hollywood-Elsewhere.com. "When you leave at Cannes, the seats are made in such a way that there's kind of a bang sound. Bang! A person's going," Wells says. Thumbs down, in other words...