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...editors: Though I feel sympathy for the Cabot House students who were sickened by a mysterious stomach virus, I had to chuckle at your coverage of the phenomenon (“Stomach Virus Sweeps Cabot,” news, Jan. 13). Those of us who were around in the spring of 2001 remember an identical outbreak of gastroenteritis, oddly affecting only Cabot House residents, reported with similar straightforward credulity in the Crimson—and wholly unmentioned in the article about this year’s illness. I remember the 2001 incident vividly: Harvard University Police Department officers came door...
...trying to trivialize the issue of sexual harassment by defining it so broadly. Rather, Silva said, the authors wanted to gauge the more general atmosphere and attitudes in campus environments and the existence of widespread—but not necessarily illegal—sexual harassment as a cultural phenomenon...
...consultant with 23 years of experience in Japan, says he encounters more and more Japanese investors who are interested in buying a motley batch of companies, pasting them together into mini-conglomerates with dubious business merit, and flipping them via an IPO: "This is a new phenomenon in Japan...
Summers also addressed the “anomalous and nonpermanent” trend of capital flow from developing nations to industrialized nations. He said he attributes the phenomenon to a lack of savings and rapid consumption in the United States, which he said is “sucking capital that would otherwise be productively invested in the developing world out of the developing world...
Maturing markets are turning Western magazine publishers in a new media direction--east, to China and India. Rock chronicler Rolling Stone will launch its Chinese edition in February. "Consumer-lifestyle publishing in China is a new phenomenon," says Rolling Stone publisher Steve DeLuca. There's little competition too: "The Chinese government wasn't up to the rock-'n'-roll scene...