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...especially true for worker bees, who far outnumber CEOs. (The word bonus is a remnant from the days when Wall Street was made up of partnerships. Now that Wall Street's largely owned by public shareholders, it should have long since dropped bonus for contingent compensation or something similar. But hey, the Street, as I said, is tone-deaf.)(See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Months after a summer blockbuster used the campus of Penn as a stand-in for what appears to be Princeton, the makers of "The Social Network," affectionately known as "the Facebook movie," are pulling a similar campus switch. Unable to shoot on Harvard's campus, the movie's producers have decided to film three outdoor campus scenes, referring to Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg's time at Harvard, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore...
...seems there is no similar outcry from Hopkins, where students and faculty may actually be excited about the project. In a Student Announcement from Dennis O'Shea, in Communications and Public Affairs at Hopkins, the school officially welcomes the film team, citing the boost such a project can bring to a local film industry struggling amid the recession...
...first felt symptoms almost instantly after sipping a cup of coffee at 3 p.m. with graduate student and fellow victim Lidia Bosurgi. He said he noticed a metallic taste and then felt a drop in blood pressure and an increase in pulse. Upon learning that four others had reported similar symptoms, he said he was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in an ambulance...
...large Sikh settlements. "On Oct. 31, there was primarily looting and arson attacks," says Jaskaran Kaur, co-director of Ensaaf, a U.S.-based nonprofit that works in the predominantly Sikh state of Punjab. "On Nov. 1, you see that everything happened very methodically - there were simultaneous attacks following similar patterns where the gurdwara was often attacked first before the residences and properties, and the death squads were able to make extensive use of state infrastructure like buses and trains." Despite this, the army was not called in until days later. "We saw what they did and who did it," says...