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Around the Ivy League track and field circuit, Becky Christensen has been a household name for a while now. For the second straight year, it appears that the entire country has taken notice of the Harvard co-captain as well. This weekend, Christensen returned to her home state of Texas to compete in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships for the second year in a row. In a high jump event that featured some of the best athletes in the country, the standout Crimson athlete finished fifth overall and garnered back-to-back All-American Indoor honors after clearing...
Although FlyBy’s name evokes images of chicken salad sandwiches in shrink wrap, we’d like to think we have good taste. What could be better, then, than an opportunity to don our Sunday best and dine amidst freshly pressed linens and candlelight? But alas, in a recession, this luxury is becoming more difficult to afford. Thankfully, Boston’s Winter Restaurant Week starts today, running through March 20 and continuing from March 22 through March 27. More details after the jump...
...stuck in its worst recession since WWII and exports are plunging. The young politician was elected to the German parliament just seven years ago representing the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, which is aligned with Chancellor Merkel's party. A fluent English speaker, he soon made a name for himself in parliament as a foreign policy and defense expert. But it wasn't until last fall, when the CSU went into meltdown after suffering big losses in the Bavarian state elections that Zu Guttenberg was thrown into the spotlight. Last November the rising star won his party...
...OZAWA: Looking back over the past 10 years, the government under the Liberal Democratic Party promoted excessive deregulation in the name of globalization and reforms. If you take a look at the situation in the area of national income, (corporate) managers were able to increase their income by twice to three times, and shareholders' dividends increased by twice that again. But the real income of salaried workers declined by 7% to 8 %. This demonstrates an excessive market economy produced a handful of super-rich people and the income gap widened. We have to rectify the disparities in the distribution...
...information is so severely circumscribed, innuendoes, puns and astrological signs often play a big role in reading national trends like jatropha. Ever looking for a hidden meaning to the seemingly incomprehensible actions of their leaders, some speculate that the Burmese word for "jatropha" sounds like an inversion of the name of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy may be the junta's most potent opposition. By inverting Suu Kyi's name, perhaps the superstitious junta believes that the kyet-suu plant will cause her democracy movement to wither away. (Read about Burma...