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...Eliot House dining hall shut its doors in the middle of lunch yesterday, forcing students to relocate to neighboring Kirkland House for the remainder of the afternoon. Eliot and Kirkland Dining Halls’ Customer Service Manager Stephen J. Mills said that as soon as staff found the sink clogged with scraps of food and plastic wrapping, a plumbing company was called. Besides the dishwashing area, no other parts of the dining hall were affected. Many students said their afternoons were not disrupted by the 1:15 pm closure, but Eliot House Master and Harvard College Professor Lino Pertile joined...
...hunting accident, despite the fact that no one died and the responsible party apologized (though not, perhaps, as promptly as he might have). It may be a small story in an age of big ones - an odd minor scene in history's bloody pageant - but if you let it sink down inside your mind and resonate there for just a little while, you have to confess that it?s potent, mythic stuff...
...novices struggling to make things work. Nevertheless, the fact that there is a happy outcome for most students does not mean that their first-year suffering is justified. On the contrary, Harvard College should do a lot more for its first-year students. Certainly, a “sink or swim” mentality produces accomplished individuals, but the costs are far too high. If the Curricular Review lessens freshmen’s requirements and increases their chances of mixing with upperclassmen and taking real Harvard classes, being a student here might not involve so many growing pains.Alexander Bevilacqua...
...gauche. On the one hand, there is that represented by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since his 2002 election, Lula has worked with the markets, introducing reforms to increase income equality. Although corruption scandals have become a Katrina for his political capital, and might even sink his reelection campaign, his whale-sized Brazil sails toward a richer more equal future...
...mature economies aren't so lethal. Instead there is potential treachery of the bottom line. Bank analysts are worried that HSBC has become overly dependent on slow-moving, mature markets, such as in Europe and the U.S.--which could slow growth. Goldman Sachs estimates HSBC's profit growth will sink to a more-than-respectable 9.8% a year from 2005 to 2007, after expanding an average of 19% a year from...