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...fact, Major League Baseball is so confident of its staying power that it is launching its own 24/7 cable channel in the midst of the country's worst recession since the Great Depression. On Jan. 1, the league, looking to tap into fans' endless demand for stats, scores and late-breaking news on a middle reliever's rotator cuff, will debut the MLB Network, a channel that promises to cover every crack of the bat, in or out of season. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments...
...Wodehouse assigned a hangover cure to his most famous fictional creation, Jeeves, the estimable butler famous for his bracer of Worcestershire sauce, raw egg, and pepper. "Gentlemen have told me they find it extremely invigorating after a late evening," he explained to a red-eyed Bertie Wooster in the 1916 short story, Jeeves Takes Charge. Jeeves' restorative isn't too far from an American concoction called the Prairie Oyster, a mixture of tomato juice, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, pepper and a raw egg - to give it that extra bleeegh. While adherents swear by the concoction, there is no scientific reason...
...details began to materialize soon thereafter. December began with the announcement that Harvard's endowment had dropped an unprecedented 22 percent—or $8 billion—and likely lost more when accounting for updated asset prices. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences halted most staff hiring in late November and then froze Faculty wages and put 70 percent of ongoing tenure searches on hold shortly after the endowment announcement. The Medical School and the Kennedy School cut their budgets as well, and even holiday cheer fell prey to the fiscal chill...
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 2002, was one of the most prominent figures at Harvard in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, bringing the Faculty's budget out of a deficit and expanding the campus in Cambridge during his formative tenure. Knowles died at his home in Cambridge on April 4, 2008 at the age of 72 after a long battle with prostate cancer. In 1974, the former Royal Air Force officer left England to join Harvard's chemistry department, eventually taking a top post as dean?...
...happen immediately," he said during a visit to Israel last summer. "That's why I will not wait until a few years into my term or my second term ... to get the process moving." That was meant to be a dig at the Bush Administration, which left it too late to pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Now the Obama Administration risks being too late even before it has begun...