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...movie screen. Early box office returns for the Jonas boys' movie indicate they're not yet in the Miley Cyrus empyrean. JB 3D, which analysts had said would gross $30-40 million, took in just $4.8 million on Friday, for a projected $15-18 million weekend total. Compare that with the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour movie, which earned $31 million its opening weekend a year ago, and in fewer theaters. As movie stars, the brothers are lukewarm, not red hot. But with a TV series starting this fall, they should remain the favorite boy band...
...Those findings match up with what the Society for Human Resource Management has been observing in its monthly survey of members. In the last three months of 2008, 27% of small firms (fewer than 100 employees) reported decreasing total head count, while 45% of large companies (500 or more workers) did. That trend was due to continue into this year, with 11% of small companies anticipating decreasing staff by the end of March, but 34% of large companies planning such a change...
...Quinnipiac were able to swipe their Harvard IDs at the game to count toward the attendance tally. Tomorrow’s 2:00 p.m. Women’s Hockey Game and 7:00 p.m. Men’s Basketball Game, both vs. Cornell, will also count toward the weekend total...
...make it easier for international graduate students to fund their education, University officials announced Friday. The recently signed deal with JPMorgan, which had been in the works for over six months to replace a previous arrangement with Citibank, will provide eligible international students with loans up to the total cost of attendance at Harvard’s graduate schools. The announcement did not contain further details for the program, and both JPMorgan and a number of Harvard financial aid officers declined to comment Friday afternoon. International students have historically had difficulty finding suitable loan options, as they are ineligible...
...large.“It was easy to think you were one of a million,” says William K. Kelley, a fellow student who worked under Kagan on the Law Review.As Dean, Kagan embarked on an ambitious expansion of the faculty to decrease class sizes, bringing the total number to 102 full-time professors before recent departures for the Obama administration. In the process, she has poached more tenured faculty—including Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most cited legal scholar in the country—from other institutions during her five-year deanship...