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...Baseball was awash in goodwill, national attention and money like it had not seen in many years. The Los Angeles Dodgers garishly flaunted such largesse after that season by giving Kevin Brown, a pitcher soon to turn 34 years old, an age when players traditionally had neared retirement as their bodies gave out, a seven-year contract worth $105 million, sweetening the deal with private jet service back and forth from his Georgia home...
Three young skiers joined the captain in the alpine scoring columns. Freshman Kevin McNamara improved eight places from his 51st starting position to finish 43rd in the Giant Slalom event. Sophomore Brad Alvarez joined Kinner and McNamara in the Giant Slalom scoring, improving 22 places on his starting position of 72nd to place 50th overall in the race...
...occur in a vacuum. If cuts are not made here, they will be made somewhere else. The educational mission of Harvard must be the main determinant when considering what programs and staff to eliminated, and cutting outsourced custodial labor is a reasonable place to reduce spending. Harvard spokesperson Kevin Galvin explained that the cuts are due to “unprecedented fiscal situation [at] Harvard” that is causing the university to carefully consider funding for each of the programs it administers...
...Journal of Social Issues paper suggests this dilemma has become less burdensome in the age of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama. The paper's authors, a team led by Kevin Binning of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Miguel Unzueta of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, studied 182 multiracial high schoolers in Long Beach, Calif. Binning, Unzueta and their colleagues write that those kids who identified with multiple racial groups reported significantly less psychological stress than those who identified with a single group, whether a "low-status" group like African-Americans or a "high-status" group like whites...
OneSource, another subcontractor that cleans properties administered by Harvard Real Estate Services—which leases and manages housing for University affiliates—has been asked by Harvard to cut contract costs by 30 to 40 percent, according to University spokesman Kevin Galvin...