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Harvard officials were upbeat about the University’s financial footing in its annual report for fiscal year 2005, but Harvard’s finance chief warned yesterday that hurdles remain on the horizon for the current year.The University’s total operating revenue last year rose 8 percent to $2.8 billion, leaving Harvard with a $44 million surplus, a modest increase over its $37 million surplus in fiscal 2004.In a letter introducing the report, University President Lawrence H. Summers called the surplus “a reflection of efforts across Harvard to budget and spend with care...
Under a $5 million contract negotiated last year by the U.S. command's Information Operations Task Force, the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based p.r. firm, translated upbeat stories written by military information officers and then paid Iraqi newspapers to print them or hired Iraqi journalists to sell them as their own stories. U.S. officers in Baghdad insisted last week they were only trying to get the truth out by buying editorial space, a customary practice in Iraq that prompted Hughes to launch programs there to train journalists to be more independent. Says a Defense Department official: "This certainly undercuts what...
President Bush begins this week upbeat after some good news. On Friday, the Labor Department issued November's employment numbers, which showed that 215,000 new jobs were created in fields that span two-thirds of the economy. The report, which many economists greeted as positive but something short of extraordinary, nonetheless prompted Bush to make a short, rallying statement in the White House Rose Garden. Today in Kernersville, N.C., Bush will bring that message to a 15-year-old manufacturing plant jointly operated by John Deere & Co. and Japan's Hitachi...
Fortunately, such moments are rare lulls in the madcap momentum of the piece. The songs—including the obligatory Gilbert and Sullivan patter song, which is delivered flawlessly—are generally upbeat and full of wordplay that is more memorable than the tunes...
...relatively little room to dance (one of the Cantab’s great strengths) but seating is cozy and comfortable, in the form of a bunch of booths and tables oriented toward the stage. The Hotspot highly recommends Johnny D’s as a date spot; find an upbeat show, and have dinner from the club’s unusually healthy kitchen; for some reason, the ingredients tend to be free-range and organic. Alternatively, go on Sunday between 9 p.m. and midnight for salsa dancing. Johnny D’s will be staring you in the face when...