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...rumor that United Airlines and Delta Air Lines were in merger talks was quashed with Delta CEO Richard Anderson's testimony before Congress on Thursday. Anderson said that he had not spoken with any high-ranking execs at United Airlines since September, when he returned to the airline industry upon taking the helm of the Atlanta-based carrier. The two airlines had already diffused rumors on Wednesday following afternoon spikes in their share prices...
Black silhouettes dance against a bright pink backdrop—but no, this isn’t an iPod commercial. It’s the opening image of Olivier Besson’s “A Time Upon Once,” the first of three newly choreographed pieces to debut at the Boston Conservatory Dance Theater Friday night. As part of the performance, aptly titled “3 X 3”, the dance students of the Boston Conservatory and artistic director Yasuko Tokunaga also presented Tommy Neblett’s “Fractured?...
...much as cutting off the UC’s party grants. By ignoring the earnest, non-partisan concerns of a humbly courageous anthropology professor, the Faculty have condemned us all to a future under the heavy fog of repression and hatred. Social lubricants be damned, we must build upon the wisdom of our classical forebears and proclaim that, at Harvard, there is truth in whining. Give us bitching, or give us death...
...even Bush can be blamed for everything that has gone wrong with that dismal institution. Rather, the morbid state in which Yale finds itself today can be traced back to a series of mistakes made by many different Yale affiliates. After all, the founding of Yale was based upon the biggest mistake of all when, in 1701, a group of ten Harvard alums thought they could do better than their school along the Charles. They came together, threw all of their books into a heap to form a “library,” and declared a new college...
...briefly banned Big Brother over what it called explicit sexual content that could corrupt the nation's youth. Uganda is still a deeply conservative nation, with laws banning homosexuality and abortion. Yet Ugandans are fascinated despite themselves by a Western-style show that showcases Africans engaged in commonly frowned-upon vices. Editorials appear weekly in local newspapers analyzing the latest sordid development...