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Earlier this year, Spike Lee picked a fight with Clint Eastwood over the lack of black soldiers in Eastwood's Iwo Jima films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Clint opined that "a guy like that should shut his face"; Spike replied, "The man is not my father, and we're not on a plantation either." No doubt that Lee was voicing a social grievance, but he was also tub-thumping some early publicity for his own WW II film - the one with the John Wayne clip and the typically smoldering Spike Lee quip...
...potential to become costly for the University because of their volatility in the current turmoil. Interest rates on variable-rate bonds have soared as investors demand higher rates of return on these securities in the face of widespread market instability. A University spokesman declined to comment on how this spike in interest rates has affected Harvard’s balance sheet. Bonds allow the University to collect money from investors in exchange for the promise to repay the principal amount plus interest later. The coupon rate of variable-rate bonds is tied to the market interest rate. Princeton, which...
...change in reporting procedures the College experienced a substantial increase in the number of liquor law violations reported,” Catalano wrote in an e-mail five days after being first asked about the spike...
...that Petraeus has been at the helm of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq. These days, alarm over sectarian bloodletting spiraling out of control has given way to heated politicking, nascent reconstruction efforts and grumblings over the lack of basic services like clean water and reliable electricity. Still, the spike in violence over the past few days - some 70 people have been killed since Saturday - highlights why Petraeus has repeatedly said it's too early for "victory laps in the end zone...
...research, which was funded by the Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, among other sources, showed that for two of the drugs, direct advertising had no impact on prescription patterns for either group. Sales for Zelnorm did experience a short-lived spike at the start of the marketing campaign, but fell back to a similar prescription rate after a few years...