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...January housing should operate on an “opt-out” framework. All students should have the default option of staying in their dorm rooms from the day after the end of winter recess to the day that marks the start of spring term. Many Harvard students will want (and ought to have the option) to spend their January working on extracurricular activities on campus or at jobs and internships in the Cambridge and Boston areas—two options that would be much less feasible without guaranteed campus housing. Renting an apartment is costly and more difficult...
...Some analysts, however, say freebies can backfire long-term. "Denny's is panicking, pandering and throwing up a Hail Mary and praying it works," says Rob Frankel, a brand expert who has consulted for a variety of Fortune 500 companies. To skeptics like Frankel, if a company gives away a product, the product must not be that good. "What does it do to the perceived value of your product when one day you are charging for it, and the next day you're giving it away?" asks Frankel. "In the long run, Denny's is cheapening its brand...
...many of the unplanned communities on the city outskirts. The city has, however, sent out of fleets of water trucks, and Mayor Marcelo Ebrard - who built urban beaches and a winter ice rink for the poor - is personally handing out free bottled water. Aguirre says the long-term solution involves teaching people to ration their water much better. "We need to educate people from when they are children that water is valuable and needs to be used wisely," he says...
...depending on whom you believe, the Chinese economy is bottoming out or even beginning to grow again. But if there's consensus that things are looking up for China in the short term, there's little agreement on two crucial questions that inevitably accompany these signs of life in the world's third-largest economy: will anyone but Chinese benefit from Beijing's apparent success in heading off the worst effects of the economic crisis? And, if the rebound is real, will it last...
...There is a chronic incapacity of Italian leaders to think in the long term, or even beyond the next election. To invest in proper seismic standards doesn't get you votes," says Jacopo Zanchini of the Rome-based weekly Internazionale. "We always hear about how Italians are at their best in a crisis, which may be true. But that's also because we're at our worst in trying to avoid the crisis in the first place...