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Andrew Hatch, the former Harvard quarterback and LSU signal-caller who briefly started for the Tigers in 2008 after transferring to LSU from Harvard the previous year, is planning to transfer back to Harvard, the Associated Press reported on Jan. 15. But according to Harvard’s admissions office, the well-traveled athlete might not have a spot reserved for him back in Cambridge. In March of 2008, the college announced a two-year moratorium on transfer admissions due to housing limitations. That policy appears to also apply to Hatch, despite past instances of athletes transferring out and then...
Since Jan. 1, at least six publicly held companies' CEOs have been separated from their jobs, including those from Orbitz, Borders and the world's largest meat producer, Tyson Foods. These departures were discussed in the press soberly for a day or two, the strengths or weaknesses of their replacements assessed, the impact on the share prices calibrated...
...course, the press loves to eat its own. But the rumor has been given credence by Vogue's recent issues, which are skinnier than a Slavic model. The January issue has 44% fewer ad pages than the same month last year, according to Media Industry Newsletter. Wintour's detractors have always conceded that she has a firm grasp of the advertising end of the pole - if this is slipping, they ask, could she be in the endgame...
...mayor has his work cut out for him - and it's not just about political survival. Monday morning saw the first casualty of his office when his press spokesman, Wade Nkrumah, handed in his resignation. Portland, like the rest of the country, is feeling the effects of the recession; the city is also in the middle of something of a crime wave. Two teens were killed and seven injured in a shooting outside an under-21 nightclub last weekend. Only 10 days earlier, there had been a gang-related shooting in broad daylight. How does a public servant go about...
...broke windows, banged on pans and drums and hurled eggs and skyr, a kind of Icelandic yogurt, at parliament and at riot police, seems to have shaken Icelandic politicians. Two days after a throng of angry protesters beset his official car on Jan. 21, Prime Minister Haarde called a press conference to reveal that doctors had found a malignant tumor in this throat and that he would step down. In an unexpected move, Haarde called for an election in May, only days after firmly and repeatedly denying the possibility of such a poll...