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...issue that does resonate with voters. This year more 12-year-olds than ever before took entrance exams for selective private and national high schools, their parents desperate to remove them from a dysfunctional public-education system. While conservatives worried about declining academic performance and motivation, a highly publicized string of student suicides last fall showed the extent to which bullying had poisoned Japan's classrooms...
Chinese shoppers are used to warnings about tainted food. According to a November report by the Asian Development Bank, food-borne disease affects 300 million Chinese per year, costing up to $14 billion in lost productivity and medical expenses. But a recent string of high-profile health scares involving toxic ingredients has consumers worried about more than a stomachache...
...team can avoid a repeat of last year’s post-Princeton dissolution. The circumstances this year are slightly different, of course. In 2006, the squad blew a last-minute lead at home to fall on a buzzer-beater in the final second, which lead to a string of six more losses, a swoon that served as the emblem for Harvard’s most disappointing season in recent memory. This year’s team held an eight-point lead early in the second half last Friday night, but was slowly bled to death over the remainder...
When Jack R. Meyer, former CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), left the University to establish his own hedge fund with a record-setting $6 billion, investors expected him to continue his string of market-beating performance. This past year, however, showed that even veteran investors can struggle in changing markets. Meyer, who headed HMC from 1990 until September 2005, is credited with growing Harvard’s $4.7 billion endowment to $25.9 billion before his departure. His success at Harvard led the University to initially invest $500 million with Meyer’s new fund—Convexity...
...indie pop terms, Field Music ends up in the easy-listening category. When you detect some of the glaring “borrowing” going on, though, the band ultimately misses the mark. Whether in guitar lines, drum beats, string melodies, or vocal harmonies, you almost get the feeling that actual sections of Beatles songs have been spliced in, to little emotional effect. Other groups, including every band ever, have experimented with the musical precedent set by The Beatles, but usually with more inspiring and enjoyable products. Field Music’s attempt lacks depth and rarely contains...