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Love Happens is the new Jennifer Aniston movie and, as it happens, her fourth to hit theaters in the past 10 months. This time she plays Eloise, a Seattle florist who drives a quirky van and wears cunning hats. As per usual, Aniston has bountiful hair and a fretful mouth and is available for love. The object of her tepid affection is Burke (Aaron Eckhart), the best-selling author of a self-help book called A-Okay!. Burke has specialized in trying to cajole others out of grief since his wife died in a car accident three years before...
...These panel members and other psychologists and sociologists have long noted that an increase in personal wealth above a certain income (about $12,000 a year per person, in some studies) has only a small effect on life satisfaction. Far more important is a person's relative position in society - how big your house is compared with your neighbor's, as opposed to its absolute size. According to these studies, even if everyone's income rose at a uniform rate - a rising tide lifting all boats - the growth would not make anyone significantly happier, at least not in the long...
...Budget constraints have also affected language study beyond the classroom. Last week, The Crimson reported that free access to the Rosetta Stone language-learning software had been eliminated. The Language Resource Center will offer students, faculty, and staff the software at a subsidized price of $110 per year, discounted from the normal $549 annual subscription price. Chase Russell ’12, a Romance Languages and Literatures concentrator, was considering using the software to practice for his Japanese course outside the classroom, but he said he is not willing to pay the new subscription price. “It?...
...forcing students to take shorter shifts at workplaces ranging from libraries to the Office of Career Services. Evelyn R. Wenger ’11, a student receptionist who has worked at OCS for the past two years, said that the maximum amount of hours each student can work per week has been reduced this year. Wenger worked between seven and ten hours each week last year, but she can no longer put in the same number of hours due to policy changes and new hour allocations, she said. “They did e-mail us prior to the beginning...
...Would there be an employer mandate? No. But employers would have to pay an annual tax penalty if any of their workers receive subsidies to purchase insurance through the exchanges. The tax penalty assessed to the employer would be either $400 per worker (regardless of how many workers receive subsidies) or the average cost of subsidies in a given year multiplied by the number of workers receiving them in the company - whichever is lower. (Businesses with fewer than 50 employees would be exempt from this...