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Harvard does not sell the naming rights to academic departments. In a pinch, such a strategy might raise a few million dollars for the school—and would likely reach a logical end with the “J.P. Morgan Faculty of Arts and Sciences”—but everyone knows that the school is not exactly cash-strappedThere do exist, however, even more absurd methods for naming a department. Ask the United States government, which could not have done worse its current moniker for our consolidated domestic security bureaucracy: the “Department of Homeland...
...families who can't afford to exchange their old bangers for new, clean cars. "In effect, the mayor has just given the green light for richer people to buy smaller cars and enter the zone for free while families who struggle with one big car are left feeling the pinch...
...ARMOIRE RANGE by Russell Pinch "Sculptural yet calm" is how London-based Pinch, a former assistant to Terence Conran, describes his Armoire collection of cupboards. The Alba, Frey and Marlow versions are made to order by U.K. craftsmen. With their brutalist paneling, they could be period concepts remixed by monumental British artist Rachel Whiteread. www.pinchdesign.com...
...news wasn't limited to manufacturing. Any firm that depends on U.S. customers felt the exchange-rate pinch in 2007. At tourist hubs like Niagara Falls and Whistler, businesses report fewer visitors. Americans made about half as many trips north in 2007 as they did in 2003. Natural-resource industries, for which prices haven't risen substantially, also suffered. "In the month of November there wasn't a single Canadian sawmill that made money," says Russ Taylor, president of forestry consultancy International Wood Markets Group. Nova Scotia's biggest Christmas-tree grower shipped a quarter of a million balsam firs...
...Pressure could be mounting from other corners in Hollywood as well. Below-the-line workers like grips, costumers and makeup artists have been among the first to feel the pinch of lost income. "I support what the writers want," says Jim Lapidus, who runs the costume department on the Fox show 24, which sacrificed its entire season to the strike. "I don't support the way they did it. I wish they would have stayed at the table and we all would have stayed working." Lapidus's tone is considerably more measured than that of Thomas Short, the president...