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...year, there will be an upswing in the [China] markets," said Paul Cavey, a China analyst with Macquarie Research. "What's needed is only a turn in sentiment." But that's dependent upon factors such as an easing of China's inflation rate, not on China's success in track and field events. "It is a mistake to try to tie China's stock-market performance to the Olympics," says Donald Straszheim, chairman of the research firm Straszheim Global Advisors. So a few years from now, when punters are urging you to buy shares in the U.K. simply because London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fool's Gold | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...contacting the offices for career services at various institutions across the country to raise awareness of the Web site. Even though she doesn’t play as large a role as her brothers do, Ethel’s insider insight is invaluable for keeping the newsletters on track...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get The Memo | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Obama’s track from 1863 to 2008 railroads the facts. Economist Thomas Sowell recounts reality in his book, “Economic Facts and Fallacies.” Today, African Americans have the lowest marriage rate of any racial group in the country, and lower labor force participation rates than whites. At the turn of the 20th century, however, blacks had higher marriage rates than whites. They also had higher labor force participation rates than whites in every census from 1890 to 1950. The problems that Obama cites are recent trends, not ancestral legacies...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: The Crack in the Glass Ceiling | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard track and field team continued to rack up personal bests this weekend at the Brown Invitational in Providence, R.I. Though the women finished fourth out of seven teams, and the men brought home seventh, there were several bright spots individually and the squad can have a lot to look forward to following this weekend. “It was a good meet for us,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “We were able to work on some things that need to get done. We had some great performances all around.”Senior...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet Highlighted by Harvard Personal Bests | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...riff-driven rock renounced the ambition and verve of previous material.More than any past recording, “Attack & Release” utilizes a classic, almost theatrical album structure, and while previous albums simply opened and shut, here the band almost seems to be telling a story. The opening track, “All You Ever Wanted,” ambles like southern folk through a warm, strange, watery atmosphere, before building strength and catapulting skyward into symphonic ecstasy. The song’s coda grips urgently, with organs piling on climbing guitars, then slips away, ghostlike. Before there?...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Black Keys | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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