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...asset-to-debt ratios that mirror the University’s current situation, and he noted that credit agencies have maintained Harvard’s ‘AAA’ rating despite the bond sales. Most elite institutions have also retained their top-notch credit ratings, although a number of other colleges did find themselves downgraded this year...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University May Assume More Debt | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Frustratingly, a number of songs use poorly-chosen passages from the novel to create banal lyrics. For instance, on the track “These Roads Don’t Move” lines like “These roads don’t move / You’re the one that moves,” are surely meant to feel prophetic, but instead just feel insipid. As anyone even vaguely familiar with Beat literature can attest, Kerouac’s writing offers more beautifully composed images than those selected by Gibbard and Farrar to depict in song...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...number of unskillful, uninspired songs demonstrate, the album’s collaborators largely failed at matching their individual musical strengths with the different moods of the album. Specifically, Gibbard’s sensitive and delicately emotive voice is best suited to melancholy and thoughtful melodies. By contrast, Farrar’s deeper, rougher twang enlivens gritty, hard-up tracks, but his nasally drawl drags down slower paced songs, making them sound whiny, not wistful. On the whole, this album, though fortified by a few well-crafted tracks, fails to adroitly engage its source text and the vocal talents...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Using Medicare data for nearly 9,000 patients, Hu compared the number of claims filed for complications resulting from the decade-old minimally invasive form of radical prostatectomy with claims following the older, traditional form of the surgery...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surgical Outcomes Are Questioned | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...business by 30 to 40 percent at The Upper Crust Pizzeria when it took place last year, according to manager Shawn C. Shenefield. While graduate students are the restaurant’s most common customers, Shenefield said that Dinner and a Movie Night brings out a larger than average number of students from the College...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CEB Marks Third Dinner, Movie Event | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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