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...Green. "If the Government falls, my view is that Bennelong will fall with it." Having made history in so many personally gratifying ways as the country's second longest-serving Prime Minister, Howard may depart politics in circumstances that would surely leave him hollow - paired with the long-forgotten Stanley Bruce as the only Australian P.M. to lose his seat at a general election. A 4% swing may be all that is needed to tip Howard's opponent in Bennelong to victory...
...despite the strain of rising interest rates, is in fine shape. Of all the factors working against the Government, among the most potent is widespread distrust of its employer-friendly overhaul of the system for dealing with labor and workplace disputes. And here the dreaded parallel with the unfortunate Stanley Bruce becomes more stark. Bruce's demise in 1929 followed a period of industrial mayhem involving miners and laborers. For the perception that he's messed with the rights of Australian workers, John Howard may pay a heavy price indeed...
...inducted into the Massachusetts Italian American Hall of Fame. He coached part of the game in a tuxedo…One of the linesmen for the Harvard-Cornell game was named Mark Messier. Although the official wasn’t the Hockey Hall of Famer who won six Stanley Cups in a 25-year NHL career, he kept the game running smoothly on the ice...Harvard outshot the Big Red, 35-23. —Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached at cskinner@fas.harvard.edu...
...several playwrights who’ve won Pulitzers, including Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Doug Wright. Harvard winners include autobiographer Henry Adams class of 1858, novelist James R. Agee ’32, and poets ranging from Conrad P. Aiken ’12 to former U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz ’26. Harvard’s golden age of poetry has been lauded in numerous publications, and its early years were in part defined by the presence of power roommates Thoreau and Emerson. But how have more recent alumni authors been faring? As a case study, examine...
Nestle's complexity, though, comes at a price. While the company's long-term growth has outstripped that of many rivals, its margins are lower; "subpar profitability" is how Morgan Stanley analyst Sylvain Massot describes it. Its stock trades at about 15 times estimated 2002 earnings, less than that of Kraft Foods, Kellogg or Hershey Foods, which all trade at price-earnings multiples of about 20. And Nestle ranks far behind Unilever, which trades at 35. Brabeck isn't fazed. "If I had run the company based on the opinion of financial analysts, it would already have been bankrupt...