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...Feldstein declines to offer any comment on the prospect of an appointment to the Fed and attributes the chatter to media hype...
...Palme d'Or - the Golden Palm, Cannes' top prize - may represent the second rank of world directors. The names Michael Haneke and Hiner Saleem, Hou Hsaio-hsien and Wang Xiaoshuai, the Dardenne brothers and the Larrieu brothers, may not light up the marquee in your movie awareness. The prospect a new Lars von Trier (Manderlay, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe and Danny Glover) may make you squirm...
...said three years ago, we are staunchly against divestment from Israel, but not because we regard its proponents as anti-Semitic. Rather, we believe divestment would lead to further instability in Israel and the Occupied Territories and thus work against establishing eventual peace in the region—a prospect that has rarely looked more promising than right now. As we have stressed before, touting Harvard’s divestment from South African firms in the 1980s is a misguided parallel. The situations are entirely different, and thus while divestment was the appropriate decision two decades ago?...
When 50 people buy tickets for an event with a published capacity of 375, there has to have been a miscalculation somewhere. This was the first harbor cruise event ever held by the UC. Though the annual Moonlight Cruise for seniors nearly always sells out, the prospect of spending three hours on a Havana-themed boat with a cash bar on an (uncontrollably) rainy Friday night held decidedly less allure. It was so hard for this event to go right, and so easy for it to go wrong...
...second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry ... All around the U.S., the lament is the same...