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...California may be lighting the way ahead for the rest of the failing U.S. economy. If so, one of the prominent features of its decline is that the government could not prevent it. The easy argument against that view is that a state cannot print money to sustain its economy. That is true, but there still is not any proof that printing money at the federal level will buy the country out of a pathological state which is destroying sixty years of the fruits of American capitalism...
...also canceled similar agreements with other schools including MIT and the University of Michigan. The abrupt termination of the program left Harvard administrators scrambling to find ways to maintain their commitment to financial aid across the University. University President Drew G. Faust has repeatedly said that Harvard will sustain current levels of graduate student financial aid for the next year—which she has deemed one of the University’s top priorities—even at the expense of other programs in school operating budgets. In the past year, the University had rolled out a series...
...choice of unusual material actually turns out to be a strength, but his imagery lacks clarity. He has reduced his poetry to little more than people watching, and in the wake of this realization, it’s natural to ask whether street-side voyeurism is enough to sustain. In his poem “An Old Harvard Man,” Holder risks telling the story of a man who urinates on the John Harvard statue. “And there you were / Dumbfounded. / Walking the ward / After angrily spraying / The statue of John Harvard / A crimson...
...initial plan for the first several weeks, but by the six-month mark, they were consuming only 225 calories less than they expended - about a third of the goal - according to a calculation based on overall weight loss. "It's very difficult to reduce your calories enough to really sustain a lot of weight loss," Loria says. (See pictures of facial yoga...
...maybe it's better to make a more gradual change in intake," says Sacks. "That's what I recommend to my patients: let's try to pick a gradual or realistic reduction in calories that's not going to make you really hungry a lot and that you can sustain day after...