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...context for these declining service sector conditions must also be noted. State-wide housing prices have increased in the past two decades by 233 percent. All the while, Harvard’s investments have been growing at unprecedented rates, reaching a peak of $19.1 billion last year. Can Harvard afford a living wage? Consult the data: Harvard’s fiscal income for the year 2000 was $2.02 billion. Its expenses that year totaled $1.90 billion. When confronted with an annual operating surplus of $120 million, arguments about Harvard’s financial incapacity to pay a living wage ring...
...Coen brothers have lost their balance. After hitting their structural peak with the haunting and humanistic Fargo and their creative peak with the gutbustingly sublime The Big Lebowski, they took a sharp downward turn in their next film, last year’s O Brother, Where Art Thou? Lapsing into The Hudsucker Proxy mode, the duo labored on O Brother under the impression that thematic depth and high production values could redeem a film which would otherwise be dismissed as light, predictable entertainment...
...Wouldn’t it be nice if life were like this?” It would be nice if like was like the inside of the Market Theater for the next three weeks: There are few things in life more enjoyable than glimpsing a gifted artist at the peak of his craft...
...CONFLICT Desolation Row The flow of refugees streaming out of Afghanistan's major cities to escape two weeks of relentless U.S. aerial bombardment rose to a new peak last week. The town of Chaman, on the border with Pakistan and only 130 km from the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, was besieged by more than 3,500 on Friday alone...
...maintained. Some have private pools. Its showpiece is the main pool, sculpted with shallow ponds on either side like a rice terrace, disappearing in seamless steps into the ocean beyond. Sunset can be mesmerizing. Doubles start at $240 but, as elsewhere, rates can fall dramatically outside the July-August peak season; call (62-370) 638-444 for reservations...