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Harvard has seen a 15 percent drop in international applications to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), in line with a pattern across the country that has left 90 percent of graduate schools facing declines in foreign student applicants, according to a national survey...
...Crimson stuck to its general pattern by opening the match with a strong, decisive victory, before dropping the next two games in the face of the talented Roger Williams’ attack. Harvard stayed close to the Hawks in games two and three, but did not exhibit the energy with which they had entered the match...
...structure of the show, whether it be an opera starring Jessye Norman, an evening of rock theater with Lou Reed?or the staging of an ancient Bugis epic. "Paris is a beautiful city because it has a beautiful structure," he says, explaining that a harmonious overall pattern is more important than any of the individual elements that fill it. "Here in Bali we begin by creating the bones of the piece, and put on the flesh. Finally, we will put on the skin." By skin he means the sets, costumes, and especially the lighting, always a crucial element...
...will be right. Welcome to a forecasting folly called "the presidential cycle." In theory, it makes sense. As CEO of the U.S., the President can tighten the nation's belt in the first year or two of his term, then bust the budget in years three and four. That pattern would crimp corporate earnings and stock prices in the first half of a presidential term (giving savvy investors a chance to buy low), and boost them in the second half (time to take profits...
...Boston firm of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., notes that in the third years of U.S. presidential terms, markets in Britain and Japan, far from the influence of the Oval Office, have been even more bullish than those in the U.S. Why? Because there may be a pattern here but not a rule. Like the length of women's hemlines and the outcome of the Super Bowl, the apparently predictable effect of the presidency on stock returns is probably random...