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...Move to Allston: Allston is across the Charles River from Cambridge. It’s where much of the College’s athletics fields and buildings are situated. This large swath of land is due for a major overhaul and integration into the larger Harvard campus. Though you won’t be here to see it, plans tentatively include building eight new undergraduate houses on that side of town (and moving undergrads out of the Quad), transferring the locus of undergraduate life from the Yard to the Charles. Much has been made of the administration?...
Kerry-Edwards signs were noticeably absent from the march—the Democratic challengers’ blue-and-white logos were dwarfed by the green swath of vocal Ralph Nader and Green Party supporters. Several protesters said that while they were unenthusiastic about Kerry, they would vote for him as the only viable alternative to Bush...
...service jobs overseas last year saw the greatest boost to their own paychecks, according to a study released last week by think tanks Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy. Those CEOs got an average 46% raise, to $10.4 million, while CEO compensation at a broader swath of companies averaged a 9% jump, to $8.1 million, suggesting that CEOs personally benefit when companies hire cheaper workers abroad. "It's a flashy finding," says Paul Oyer, associate professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. "But these are two separate issues, and there's no reason...
Kerry-Edwards signs were noticeably absent from the march—the Democratic challengers’ blue-and-white logos were dwarfed by the green swath of vocal Ralph Nader and Green Party supporters. Several protesters said that while they were unenthusiastic about Kerry, they would vote for him as the only viable alternative to Bush...
...knows when the drought will end. Scientists believe this dry spell, which has plagued a broad swath of the West since 1999, is more typical of the region than its 60 million inhabitants would care to admit. As Charles Ester, chief hydrologist for Arizona's Salt River Project, a major provider of water and electricity, puts it, "What we took as a period of normal rainfall in the past century was actually a period of abundance...