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...good quarter given the depth of the recession - while revenues were down quarter over quarter, they grew 6% year over year thanks to continued strong query growth. These results underline both the resilience of our business model and the ongoing potential of the web as users and advertisers shift online." What he did not bother to mention is that no business model is any good at all without customers. Google has millions of clients spending money on its search advertising and its financial results are a signal that companies both large and small are not so hard up that they...
...nice to forget December. Investment banks traditionally end their fiscal year in November, commercial banks in December. Since Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley shifted to commercial-bank status late last year, they decided to shift their fiscal years starting this year. In doing so, they orphaned the month of December 2008. For Goldman, it was revealed this week, that meant saying goodbye to $780 million in losses that will never show up on the bottom line of an earnings report...
...Durham and Cambridge found that migration flights undertaken by warblers in Europe and Asia could be extended by as much as 250 miles by the end of the century. That's because as temperatures rise, the habitats of birds like the whitethroat, which breed in Europe, will need to shift farther north to more hospitable climates. But the birds' wintering grounds in Africa appear unlikely to shift northward - for reasons that still aren't clear - leaving the birds facing longer migrations. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...same place. It is different I think in that the humanities have a more dominant role at Yale than here, so here you are dealing with a broader population. You’re more likely to have social science concentrators in class...It’s a kind of shift of teaching for a broader public and not just for hardcore literature people.THC: Professor David Damrosch, everyone wants to know: how are Harvard students compared to the students you have taught in Columbia?DD: They are rather different. I think that the whole atmosphere is quite different. Columbia...
...items. The news—which was e-mailed to members of the library system by Jeremy Bloxham, dean of science for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—came five days before Tuesday’s town hall meeting, where FAS Dean Michael D. Smith unveiled a shift from small cost-reduction measures to a sweeping reevaluation of FAS structure in the face of a $220 million deficit. HCL spokeswoman Beth Brainard said the plans for consolidation were “not associated with the budget.” Even before the financial crisis hit Harvard, library officials...