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Valentine’s Day blues, anyone? Dating scene got you down? If so, consider taking the commuter down to Providence, where two guys at Brown may have the answer. With their Web site Prospect and Meeting, Kai Huang ’11 and Arune Gulati ’11 have created a site where student users can list five people they have crushes on, and then receive an e-mail if any of those five crushes in turn have crushes on them...
...Former U.S. prosecutors say there could be many reasons for prosecutors to have passed on Birkenfeld's offer. Wearing a wire in Switzerland, for instance, would legally have required the U.S. to get permission of the Swiss authorities - an unlikely prospect - although one experienced former U.S. attorney who asked to remain anonymous noted that he and others he knew had done that in other countries without seeking permission...
...economic malaise of the E.U. and Japan has central bankers and bondholders worried. But it has currency speculators and arbitragers licking their lips at the prospect of riding the euro and yen on their downward slide, while at the same time making fat profits on high-yield investments and rising currencies in emerging markets...
...history, the basketball team was legitimately good—and the student body had begun to take notice. With yet another win at Boston College and a six-point loss to then-No. 13 UConn, the Crimson had turned heads both inside and outside of Cambridge. Having a pro prospect in co-captain Jeremy Lin, who has been featured in ESPN and Sports Illustrated, didn’t hurt its profile either...
...Perry in a GOP primary dominated by conservatives, it may indicate that some of the activists have gotten the message," says political analyst Larry Sabato. "To be governor of Texas and to win as a moderate conservative Republican, she becomes a very hot property ... She'll automatically become a prospect for Vice President." But that was a year ago, before tea became a tonic for conservatives across the country...