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...instance, Qing “Emma” Wang ’12, co-chair of the Harvard College Queer Students and Allies, says the club tried to hold a party in mid-April in Adams House. After the College informed QSA that it had failed to meet the administration’s event registration specifications, the group was forced to cancel the highly-publicized event at the last minute...
...Harvard Business School students piled into rental cars to be whisked from the Allston campus across the river to Business School Professor Howard H. Stevenson’s Cambridge home for dinner one mid-April night...
...coincidence that the Dai, an ethnic minority concentrated in southwestern China's Yunnan province, ring in their New Year in mid-April by sprinkling each other with cold water. April is the driest month for subtropical regions like Yunnan, which depend on the coming of seasonal rains for their fertility. Historically, water-splashing has been a symbolic way of beseeching the divine to bring an end to scarcity and hasten a period of abundance. Never have the people of South China needed that abundance more than now, during the worst drought the area has seen in nearly a century...
...Industry analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations says Clash might have been expected to earn about $100 million this weekend - if it had secured all the 3-D screens it needed, which Warner Bros. could have done if it had released the film in mid-April, when Alice and Dragon would have run their course, and before the first expected smash of the summer season, Iron Man 2. But Warner decided on Easter weekend, and the swamis are now predicting a take of $70 million for Clash's opening three days. "Warner Bros.' decision doesn't make...
...rides on that being true, and a key test is upcoming. In mid-April, Geithner has to decide whether to formally brand China a currency manipulator, something the U.S. has thus far refrained from doing. If he does, Beijing will be furious. And if he doesn't, the U.S. Congress, already threatening new tariffs against Chinese imports, will be furious. One hopeful sign: a U.S. Treasury team was recently in Beijing, no doubt talking about exactly this subject. Politics is rearing its head on both sides of the Pacific these days. And it may take an optimist on the scale...