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...wonder if his move into the sector is a sign to start putting investment chips back on the table and roll the dice on companies with big exposure to the U.S. gaming market. "[Carl Icahn] has always been a very astute investor," concurs Clyde Barrow, a casino expert and professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. "There's a lot of upside potential, and if you're investing for the long term, now is the time to buy." (See pictures of hard times in Las Vegas...
About fifteen years ago, a professor offered to donate a complete run of Penthouse Magazine to Widener Library. (Which professor? “I probably shouldn’t say,” Hazen laughed.) The collection was to be stored behind the desk in the Periodicals Room, requiring patron request for use. This ultimately didn’t work out, but only because, as Hazen put it, “The older women on staff were extraordinarily uncomfortable with the notion they’d have to be handing that stuff over...
CHANG JIWEN, a professor at the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, on the Chinese government's consideration of legislation that would make eating cats and dogs illegal...
...courses of action are possible. If the student denies the charges, the student would be required to appear before the Ad Board. Otherwise, the Secretary of the Ad Board—currently John “Jay” L. Ellison—would meet with the course professor, who would determine whether the case should be sent to the Ad Board or handled with punishments such as mandatory tutoring, a course warning, or a graded penalty...
...scathing Boston Globe op-ed, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 and engineering Professor Frederick H. Abernathy labeled the Corporation “a dangerous anachronism” and argued that it is “too small, too closed, and too secretive to be intensely self-critical, as any responsible board must...