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...Your cover is a direct insult to those who lived through the Depression. If we can still spend $300 on an iPod, times can't be so bad. Yes, the economy is slowing, but not as severely as TIME has illustrated. John Nicoletti, NAPLES...
Indian tradition decrees that it is auspicious to make purchases in the days leading up to Diwali, which falls in October or November. With faith meshing so effortlessly with commerce, the season sees sellers, advertisers and marketers urging the devout to spend money with a religious fervor, as they hawk everything from chocolates and consumer durables to gold and houses. Buying a home is considered especially propitious. What better way to welcome the goddess of wealth into one's life than by inviting Lakshmi into a new abode? Thus, the period from just before Diwali through March is usually...
...that to happen, however, we need serious government policy: smart subsidies for alternative energy and green building, retraining for green-collar jobs, more research money for clean tech - and hopefully a tax on carbon. Both Presidential candidates have gestured at this - though Sen. Barack Obama, who has pledged to spend $150 billion over 10 years on clean tech, is ready to do more...
...vote absentee, but have taken the time out of their busy schedules to campaign for both presidential candidates and their Congressional counterparts, even during the primary season. Similarly, veterans of the campaign trail have taken it upon themselves to organize and motivate large groups of student volunteers to spend hours talking to undecided voters. Before November 4, Harvard College undergraduates will have travelled to battleground states as far away as North Carolina; both the Democratic and Republican communities on campus will have travelled to New Hampshire on almost a weekly basis. Phone banking events have generated a great deal...
...transferred from his public high school to an all-boys prep school outside of Philadelphia. Adding crew to his repertoire sophomore year, Schreck quickly developed a love and talent for the sport, becoming captain of both the basketball and crew teams by his senior year.For Schreck, choosing where to spend the next four years of his life was not particularly difficult. Cambridge’s culture and the campus atmosphere were high selling points, and, of course, there was the Harvard crew team. “I went on a few visits with my parents beforehand and just...