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...happened than where we're headed - and the forward-looking news is equally grim. On Feb. 5, the Labor Department reported that 626,000 people made first-time claims for state jobless benefits in the week ending Jan. 31, more than economists expected and the most since 1982. The total number of people collecting unemployment now stands at nearly 4.8 million, the most since at least 1967, though the U.S. had about a third fewer people then...
...Beanpot Hockey Tournament earlier this week, teams of hungry College students stuffed their faces to qualify for a chance to defend Harvard against teams from four other Boston-area universities in Qdoba’s Fifth Annual Rice and Bean Pot burrito eating contest last night. A total of 14 teams, made up of four students each, wolfed down four of Qdoba’s 18-ounce vegetarian burritos in hopes of landing a place in the final round of the contest next Tuesday. The fastest team in Tuesday’s final round will win an all-expenses paid...
...succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, eventually toppling the Communist regime in Warsaw. They achieved this feat not through violent revolution, but through a series of negotiations that became famous as the Round Table talks. The defeat of Communism in Poland—which was soon followed by its total collapse in Eastern Europe and, in 1991, the Soviet Union itself—should properly be regarded as one of the greatest triumphs in European history...
...mostly poor people setting out for the promise of foreign shores around the globe. "The world's basic stock of 200 million migrants hasn't really changed, and isn't likely to change," says Jemini Pandya of the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, citing the estimate for the total number of people living in countries other than their place of birth. "There is a structural need for migrants, and that doesn't go away because of economic problems in the developed world. There will still be jobs that locals don't want to do or don't have skills...
Yesterday’s notice stated that FAS is conducting a total of 28 searches, only 21 of which fall within its divisions. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which falls under the FAS umbrella, accounts for the other seven searches, all of which have been authorized since before the onset of the financial crisis, according to SEAS Interim Dean Frans A. Spaepen...