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...What we’ve been trying to do all along with the budget reductions is to think of all the possible ways [to cut] without affecting people,” Oseasohn said, calling an early retirement “a less painful thing than saying we’ve got to let somebody...
...contest, but the Crimson’s ultimate downfall was the power play. Yale converted on four of its six chances despite converting just 19.1 percent of power plays on the season. Harvard could not convert on its three man-advantage attempts.“The biggest thing for us is just staying out of the box,” junior Doug Rogers said. “Not our best game on the penalty kill, but sometimes it’s just the luck you get.”The Bulldogs opened the scoring a little more than eight minutes...
...factors provided ripe conditions for a conference here at Harvard.” The conference began in Boylston Hall on Saturday afternoon and continued throughout the weekend. Between 40 and 50 students from the four schools were in attendance, organizers said. “I think the most inspiring thing is seeing how much participation there is from other schools,” said Bowman. “When you’ve got kids from four different colleges all coming together and sharing, you really can see that the interest in endowments and investing responsibly is a broad, broad...
...advances the mental health community has made in recent decades, including pharmacological treatment, the biggest factors influencing suicides rates seems far beyond its reach. "Suicide rates appear to be quite strongly associated with broad sweeping cultural trends rather than more minor things such as a treatment," notes retired Colonel David Litts, who played a key role in reducing suicide within the Air Force by 60% in five years. (The overstretched Army, by contrast, is still experiencing historically high rates.) "So in the face of this economic turmoil perhaps the most important thing we can do is relieve the financial strains...
...Meantime, one more thing: it's been noted widely that, even with a sketchy start, Obama is still far ahead of the game here, having won from both houses of Congress the makings of a massive stimulus measure in record time...