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...Corporate earnings were worse than expected in the fourth quarter of last year. With the end of the current quarter a week away, the largest American companies will begin the process of "pre-announcing" their numbers. Most public companies want to race out bad news quickly, so that they cannot be accused of sitting on material information that could be damaging to shareholders any longer than is necessary. Earnings for the first quarter of 2009 will be dismal. Securities analysts, with a multi-decade track record of being overly optimistic, are the very people whom investors rely on for forecasts...
...mortality to date were first gathered for the National Institutes of Health and AARP Diet and Health Study in 1995. Researchers then tracked deaths for 10 years, until 2005, using the Social Security Administration Death Master File and the National Death Index, controlling for factors such as age, race, education, body-mass index and alcohol intake. (See pictures of a perfect steak instead of eating...
...year off on a high note, junior Ali Clarke and sophomore Kate Mills received invites to the 2009 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Texas A&M after solid performances at this year’s Ivy League championships.Invited after placing first at Ivies, Mills was tapped to race in her signature event, the 200-yard freestyle. She also competed in the 200-yard butterfly event and the 500-yard freestyle event, for which she placed third at Ivies behind Clarke and Princeton’s Alicia Aemisegger. Aemisegger was the only other Ivy swimmer to compete at NCAAs. Clarke...
Harvard Law School students Brian T. Aune and Jennifer D. Dein captured the top two spots in yesterday’s HLS student government elections, the first election in recent memory to feature a contested race for both the presidency and vice-presidency. Aune, a second-year student, will assume the presidency and Dein, a first-year, will serve as vice-president of a body of student representatives that has gained increased prominence at the Law School over the past year. Aune and Dein said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday that they hope to focus on student concerns...
...gonna be here,” says protagonist Troy Gable in “The Great Buck Howard,” “and if that’s the case, I wanna spend the time I have here doing something that makes my heart race.” Coming from most characters, this statement might sound heartfelt, if somewhat trite. In the context of this film, however, Troy simply sounds insane. Troy (Colin Hanks) is a young law student who drops out of school against his father’s wishes, having decided that writing is his true...