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This is a terrible idea on a number of levels, and it is just one more in a series of cost-cutting measures that hit students hardest. From freezing faculty salaries, offering buyouts to Harvard’s longest-standing employees, and serving chicken nuggets twice a week, Harvard is hitting students below the belt. Harvard may be saving money, but at what cost? Granted, this university has never been famed for its fine cuisine, but its gifted faculty, dedicated staff, and world-renowned library system have played a great part in making Harvard the institution it is today. Besides...
...that there must be a solution to the financial crisis buried in there somewhere, probably between the back issues of “Playboy” and that mysterious book entitled “Privies Galore” that I’ve had to retrieve from the depository twice. Widener has everything—Henry James’s “Wings of a Dove,” the “Wings of a Dove” DVD, and several tomes on bird wings throughout history. This is the kind of knowledge that we need...
...forces battled for over three years. Blu-ray won that war, but its sales have been very modest. Maybe the new technology seems too expensive to consumers. Maybe most people think video looks fine in standard definition. As CNET recently wrote, movies on Blu-ray disks can cost about twice what a regular resolution DVD does. The backers of Blu-ray and HD DVD each spent billions of dollars to win a market which may not even exist, at least not at the size they thought it would...
Anand's case study compared VG.no's 6 million monthly readers (it has since grown to 8 million) to NYTimes.com, which at the time had 14 million. VG got 11 page views per session and almost 10 sessions per visitor a month - both figures almost twice those at the Times when the study was done. That boosts ad rates considerably. "If VG had the Times' numbers, revenue would fall by three to four times, and the site would be a loss-making entity," says Anand...
...years to beat the team in blue and red again, but it also won’t get its first season sweep of Penn since 1959. The Big Green did sweep the Quakers eight times in the 1940s and 50s when it also played in the NCAA championship game twice. Times have changed. Penn 70, Dartmouth...