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...personally read and edited bushels of these parting shots. I say “bushels” because, like a farmer, I annually anticipate Commencement Week as a harvest of sorts. The crop of parting shots is fairly predictable, occasionally yielding some blue ribbon corn and always yielding a surplus of diseased squash. Someone will tell you the charming story of how they learned to love failure. Someone else will try to convert you to the Church of Teach for America. Everyone will lament the hours they spent in Lamont...
Although Harvard administrators would have probably declined to comment had we bothered to contact them, we feel confident that the University would graciously share some of its sports prowess, athleticism, and surplus “bro” culture with our neighbors down the way. In exchange, MIT could provide Harvard with a J-Term that is, well, more than just a “J-cation.” We could also benefit from MIT’s computer-nerd skills, which have clearly paid off in terms of the institution’s web design and e-mail...
...Those reasons extend beyond an overstimulated domestic economy. The geopolitics of the move are also pressing for Beijing. Though exports collapsed last year as the world plunged into recession - China's current account surplus declined by about half as a percentage of its overall economy - that adjustment phase is over. Exports will again add to GDP growth in China this year, and in an era of high unemployment in the U.S. and Europe, the potential for a serious protectionist backlash is very real. (Indeed, a team from Treasury slipped quietly into Beijing recently to make just this point.) For administrations...
A123 Systems got a $249 million federal grant to open at least three lithium-ion-battery plants in Michigan that will employ hundreds of workers. Michigan is home to or close to many of the plants where electric vehicles are being made, of course, and the state has a surplus of skilled workers. It's not, ahem, a bad choice politically either. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...young Crimson team will need to focus on channelling its surplus of energy to compete with an experienced opponent like Duke...