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...Picture from five films to 10, but studio bosses will say it was a very good year. No matter what else Americans skimped on when they got slammed by the Great Recession, they didn't stop going to the movies. For the first time ever, the annual box-office total exceeded $10 billion ($10.5851, to get into pi calculations), outpacing the previous record, in 2008, by nearly 10%. The number of tickets sold, 1.474 billion, was the highest of the past five years - though lower than sales in any year from 2001 to 2004, when the big franchises (Star Wars...
Caputo earned a measure of retribution in his fifth-place bout, dominating a rematch with Keddy’s teammate Grant Gambrall. The Crimson standout earned a 5-0 decision to cap his Midland career, finishing with the third-highest win total all-time in the tournament’s 184 lb. weight class...
...mail Ameer sent to undergraduate directors of studies left students and faculty confused over whether or not all thesis writers would be granted housing. In the end, the college ultimately approved over 93 percent of those who applied to stay on campus during January—a total of 1,316 students...
...especially since it marked a significant departure from expectations in the previous fall for scenarios ranging from a flat payout to a 2 percent decline in dollar value. In September, Harvard announced that its invested endowment assets took a 27.3 percent hit in the past fiscal year, bringing the total value of the endowment as of June 30 down to $26 billion (since December of 2008, the University had been planning for a 30 percent drop-of in endowment value for the year ending June...
...student life untouched: fewer hot breakfast offerings, the closure of two campus cafes, the downgrading of three junior varsity teams to club status, and even reduced shuttle service. The cutbacks published on the FAS Web site amounted to $77 million in projected savings, or a third of the total $220 million projected annual deficit that FAS administrators said they hoped to close by July 2011. For all the professed savings, however, shocked students and faculty expressed their concerns with the pervasive culture of budget trimming: “This stinks of rhetoric—the whole Web site does...