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...part of the HCCRs prescription that ought to be left unfulfilled is its recommendation about advising. By no means should the responsibility to freshman advising be shifted to the Houses. Rather, the existing network of freshman advisors should be complemented by an enlarged prefect program able to profit from prefects and their prefectees common house affiliations...
Closer to home, textbooks’ soft-cover cousins aren’t getting any cheaper either. Coursepacks that Harvard Printing and Publication Services (HPPS) used to handle are now being farmed out to XanEdu, a for-profit printer, and sold at the Harvard Coop. The extra distribution costs plus the Coop’s markup can only mean higher prices for students (then again, HPPS’s abrupt departure from the coursepack printing business means their low prices must have been to some extent financially unsustainable...
...restrictions. But for now, the cap looks likely to remain for some time?and ironically, that may work out in favor of the foreigners in the end. Competition for reporters and other staff has pushed up labor costs for existing newspapers, and huge marketing expenditures threaten to eat into profit margins. Ansari of Mid Day says he is "concerned about some of the competitive strategies being adopted," warning that they "can only hurt the industry in the long term." In other words, even in one of the world's largest and most vibrant media markets, too many players may wind...
...difficult," says Bob Spaulding, project manager for Fluor Corp., one of the companies awarded $100 million to help provide temporary housing to nearly 1 million people in the region. To help quicken the pace of rebuilding, the government has relaxed some of its normal rules, guaranteeing contractors a certain profit regardless of what they spend, allowing many contracts to be signed without competitive bidding, and raising the amount federal employees can put on their credit cards without getting special approval, from...
...PROPOSAL YOU'RE PITCHING TO THE U.N. IS TO ALLOW FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AS WELL AS PRIVATE COMPANIES, TO PARTICIPATE IN IRAN'S URANIUM-ENRICHMENT PROGRAM. DO YOU THINK THIS OPENNESS, AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL TO PROFIT, WILL FINALLY BREAK THE DIPLOMATIC DEADLOCK...