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...spite of the spike in this year’s international numbers, leaders within the Harvard community have been quick to recognize the onerous promise of this year’s national decline. Former Kennedy School of Government dean Joseph S. Nye wrote an op-ed in The New York Times yesterday citing the recent drop in international enrollment as evidence that restrictions established in the name of national security are damaging the nation’s international stature...
Notwithstanding all the talk about scale, $300 million in annual cost savings and sizable purchasing power, the merger isn't so much an attempt to take on a behemoth like Wal-Mart as it is to survive in spite of it. Even with a combined $55 billion in annual sales, Sears and Kmart will be just one-fifth the size of Wal-Mart, which "is so overwhelming in terms of market share, logistics and efficiency that going up against them would be futile," as Michael Appel, managing director of Quest Turnaround Advisers, puts...
...spite of "Kramer's" monumentalizing, none of the contributors seem outclassed. The deluxe treatment brings out a level of artistry in even the simplest style. The ones who specialize in complex detail are put to special advantage. Marc Bell, for example, creates fantastical, hilarious universes filled with characters doing something in every corner. Besides a fearlessness of "blowing up" edgy creators, Harkham's boldness also shows itself in a willingness to expose the materials of comix. The typically taboo corners, edges and surfaces of the original artwork have been made fully visible in some cases. "Castor and Pollux," a poetic...
...spite of increased efforts to improve student safety at the Harvard-Yale tailgate this year, the number of students transported to University Health Services (UHS) and area hospitals more than doubled compared to the 2002 Game, the last time the competition was at Harvard...
...hours a week seeing actual patients face to face. Hobbled by an excruciating leg condition, he pops Vicodin like Tic Tacs as he suffers hypochondriacs with the sniffles. (He does connect with a bitter office worker trying to milk her insurance before she gets fired; admiring her spite, he orders up an expensive, unnecessary scan...