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...heart,” the Dalai Lama said yesterday morning to a rapt audience at Memorial Church in a speech entitled, “Educating the Heart.” The Divinity School and the Graduate School of Education co-hosted the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibet. After traditional Tibetan dance performances and introductory remarks by Divinity School Dean William A. Graham and School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney, audience members stood in anticipation as the Dalai Lama entered the hall and proceeded on stage. The Dalai Lama lightened the mood when he began...
Nortel, a former member of the BCE family, was able to use an earlier power shift that made long-distance competition possible to become a global leader, but it failed to repeat that with cable phone and wireless broadband. Nortel continues to make money on CDMA networks, a wireless protocol still used by many providers worldwide. But in 2007 it sold its GSM division, the 3G standard for the most advanced mobile communication, to rival Alcatel-Lucent...
...recipe for swift price correction. "What's surprising is how rapid the decline has been," says Scott Berman, U.S. leader of hospitality and leisure consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Even time-shares at top lodging companies are taking hits: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide reported a 48% decline in revenues from its vacation-ownership business in the fourth quarter, with the average price per unit plunging 31%. Similarly, Marriott International posted a 32% revenue drop in time-share sales. David Loeb, a senior analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., sees more pain ahead. He projects Starwood's vacation-ownership sales revenues to fall...
...School series. Beer School—which began in the spring of 2007 when the Pub opened—brings in local brewers to host beer tastings and to talk about life in the brewing industry. Beer School takes place about two or three times per semester. MacLean, the leader of the series, is the sales representative of Magic Hat Brewing Company in the greater Boston area. During his presentation, he spoke about Magic Hat’s most successful beers, the process of brewing, and the history of Magic Hat. Magic Hat, or the “Willy Wonka...
...Such choices get to the real truth behind the cold hard numbers of health-care reform. Every one of them is a political calculation, one that pits one constituency against another. Can lawmakers really balance the books on health-care reform? "You can do it," says former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, a leading voice in the health-care-reform effort. "It's just a matter of how much pain you want to endure...