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Things got even worse this week. Chrysler, citing the lack of financing for car sales, announced that it was chopping 25% of its white collar work force, about 5,000 people, and a like number of contract workers. "These are truly unimaginable times for our industry," said CEO Robert Nardelli in the statement. "We continue to be in the most difficult economic period most of us can remember." GM boss Rick Wagoner told employees in an Email that the company has to make more cuts and urged anyone on the retirement fence to get off it and go, since buyout...
...cannot help turning to the remedy formulated by Keynes during the dark years of the early 1930s: stimulating demand by spending much more than they take in, preferably but not necessarily on useful public works like highways and schools. "I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole," jokes Robert Lucas, a University of Chicago economist who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for theories that criticized Keynes...
DIED The inspiration for Robert De Niro's character in Martin Scorsese's Casino, Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal ran four Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and was labeled "the greatest living expert on sports gambling" by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Head of the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos, he was famous for his alleged ties to the Mob. After surviving an attempt on his life, Rosenthal left the city and ended his gambling career. He never admitted any wrongdoing, once invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 35 times in a 1961 Senate hearing on gambling and organized crime...
Renowned pianist and music professor Robert D. Levin ’68, a freshman when Yannatos first arrived, speaks enthusiastically about the profound impact Yannatos has had on music at Harvard...
...Songs for a New World,” opening today at the Loeb Experimental Theatre, and “Mnemonic,” opening today at the New College Theatre. “Songs for a New World,” written by the exciting contemporary musical writer Jason Robert Brown, is composed of a series of short scenes with a combination of musical styles. “Mnemonic” melds together two plotlines to explore the concepts of memory and origin. Both shows are directed and performed by Harvard undergraduates, offering interesting companions...