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...hundred-and-seventy years ago, Harvard opened up its first buildings in an area surrounded by wood yards and cows. Today, the University is one of the largest landowners in the Square—a disturbing fact to some of its business neighbors. An entire row of Mass. Ave. shops will shut down next month so that Harvard, the landlord, can renovate the storefronts, along with the graduate student housing units upstairs.Ferranti-Dege Photographic Store, a Square staple since 1955, already closed its doors on Oct. 13 to allow Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) to renovate the basement space.This...
...skills shortage. Wage rates are growing by 20% a year, sometimes more, as Indian companies battle to attract educated workers. It helps that as opportunities at home improve, more students are deciding to return to India after their studies abroad. But if the world's universities can set up shop in India, not only will more Indians get a chance at a good education, fewer students will have to leave India in the first place...
Lynn Loring, a flight attendant for American Airlines, has been coming to Paris for 18 years, and at times when the dollar was strong, she says, "All I did was shop." But last week, walking around the Galeries Lafayette department store, she was doing more looking than buying. The reason: the dollar has been sliding against the euro, and that's making everything much more expensive for her. "I'm so depressed," she says. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...White House, from the President on down, and led the Administration to dig in its heels. Says a Baker confidant: "Everything that happened on Election Day made for extra work." It wasn't long before senior Administration officials were whispering that the diplomatic proposals coming out of Baker's shop would never fly. Realizing that with Gates moving to the Pentagon, the study group's report may have more impact than they had first thought, Democrats from all quarters began bombarding their allies on the panel with advice about how to stage an organized withdrawal and pressing for a precise...
...lack of clout and the poor performance of the Iraqi military. This strikes Anthony Cordesman, an expert on the war with the Center for Security and Strategic Studies, as a bit dubious. He said, Wednesday, "The idea that when you send the bull in to liberate a china shop, [and then] you blame the china shop for breaking the china is, shall we say, somewhat ingenuous, and probably misleading." But it may reflect a growing desire among many in Washington to wash their hands of a problem that, for the foreseeable future, may have no solution...