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...first big company to report earnings, Alcoa (AA), proved that the best guesses about how companies will perform this quarter will probably be true. Surprises will be scarce. Alcoa said that the first quarter would be a bad quarter. The company said it would lose money. In the first quarter, Alcoa lost $.59 after charges for discontinued operations. Reuters predicted that the loss would be $.54. This was close enough for government work. The stock dropped 3% after the announcement. In short, there was no shocking news because Alcoa made sure there would not be any. (See pictures...
...calendar reform subsequently fell by the wayside amid a focus on the pending curricular review and the controversies of the Summers administration. In spring 2007, the Undergraduate Council renewed the discussion, calling for an undergraduate referendum on calendar reform and proposing a plan that deviated from the Verba report in omitting the J-Term. At the end of that academic year, interim President Derek C. Bok announced that the Harvard Corporation had approved a plan modeled on the Verba committee’s original outline. Bok had written in his announcement that plans for the time between early January...
...Sweet declined to comment for this article, and the Dartmouth News Office could not be reached for confirmation of the figure late last night, but The Dartmouth, the University’s student newspaper, did report in February that almost 15 percent of eligible staffers had accepted the school’s offer of a retirement package. Just three weeks after Dartmouth’s deadline for accepting the package, the University’s administration announced that they would be laying off 60 staffers...
...Report on Harvard House Renewal released last week promises to give students everything from 24-hour dining halls to more soundproof bedrooms. The House Program Planning Committee has gone to lengths to address a broad array of problems, involving both the structure of the Houses themselves and the general organization of House life. The major initiatives laid out in the report seem positive and, if renewal proceeds along these lines, prospective students can look forward to joining better-equipped, more cohesive Houses...
...Many proposed improvements concern aspects of House life that students have complained about extensively, and their inclusion indicates that the planning process is responsive to student concerns. Notably, the report addresses the lack of social spaces within Houses. It notes that dining halls should not be the only place to hold large functions nor Junior Common Rooms the only student “hangout” space in a House. Any student who is tired of bumping into soda machines on Saturday nights or has attempted and failed to book one of the overscheduled JCRs for an activity will...