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...clothing deal has amused many bloggers since it was first reported by the trade publication Women's Wear Daily. Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton asked: "why???" The IvyGate blog quipped: "You know Harvard's broke when they start competing with Hollister." And Jimmy Fallon chimed in on late-night television: “Harvard University is launching a new clothing line called Harvard Yard....Of course the clothes are really hard to get into, unless your father wears them first.’’ Even the Chronicle of Higher Education couldn't resist, and published a blog post...
...continues to live in Tskhinvali with his South Ossetian wife Nino, says he does not believe the border will be opened soon. But he has seen signs that, one day, people may be able to move on from the war. "People just want to visit family and friends and trade," he says, looking out over a neighborhood that was nearly leveled by the fighting last year. "My neighbors have enough of their own problems to not dwell on my last name. Sometimes they even come over to ask if they can help repair my house." Those are rare moments...
...shipping industry, like so many others, has been battered by the global recession. According to Lloyd's Marine Intelligence Unit, nearly 10% of the world's merchant ships are stuck at harbor because of a collapse in global trade. Burnett notes that there has been an increase in insurance fraud as a result of financial pressures. "We have had cases in the past where ships have been intentionally scuttled as part of a fraudulent insurance scheme," he says. "The law says that when a ship doesn't arrive in port, it's assumed to be from a peril...
...Numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) speak to the same effect for new employees. Each month the human-resources trade group surveys more than 1,000 manufacturing and service-sector companies. The number of firms reducing new-hire salaries and benefits now outstrips the number of companies increasing packages. Falling compensation for new hires is unusual too, even during a downturn, according to analysts at SHRM - smaller increases are the more typical response...
...crowds with eloquent arguments for tea-party principles. He attacked deficits in general and the stimulus in particular as Euro-socialist assaults on his kids. He clamored for term limits, states' rights and the abolition of the estate tax. He attacked government-run health care, warned that cap and trade would leave us with a "Third World economy," and noted that the words "separation of church and state" were nowhere in our founding documents. At times, he seemed to sense that he sounded extreme and offered clarifications like "I'm not saying Barack Obama is the same as Fidel Castro...