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Even though most of the nation’s largest retailers reported a sharp slump in sales for October, local businesses seemed poised to weather the economic storm, buoyed by the reliable university customer base and the Square’s consistently strong foot traffic.“Harvard Square is a little different [from other business environments] in that people, students, academics, business people—they still have to come here because business continues and school continues,” said Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “People need...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Businesses Survive Meltdown | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...remains ethnicity and sect, with all of the main players being those connected with some form of politically aligned military muscle and the prize being control over power and resources. As a result, elections tend to exacerbate rather than resolve tensions, and next year's races will likely see sharp political (and occasionally even military) battles between rival Shi'ite parties in the south and Baghdad; between Sunni and Shi'ite blocs in some parts north of Baghdad, such as Diyala province, as well as between the government (including the Sunni parties that have participated in it, until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama's Win Will Affect Middle East Elections | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...Ormindo’ uses a wider palette than just Baroque performance practices, although we will stay true by using serpentine curves, and a wide array of dance origins,” said director Roy A. Kimmey ’09. “There are often sharp shifts in emotion throughout the music of this opera, and we want the gestures to point out these rhetorical changes in the music.”Keeping the thoughts of the director in mind, Hargis worked with six members of the cast on using more Baroque performance practices in their interpretations...

Author: By Marissa A. Glynias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hargis Broaches Baroque Opera | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...Shortly after entering office eight years ago, President Bush decided to place sharp limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, siding with the more conservative wing of his party that considers the work to be immoral and tantamount to infanticide...

Author: By Nan Ni and Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Labs for Change: High Hopes for Obama | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...nation, Danforth warned, is in for a sharp left turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

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