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...must appreciate the number of students involved in each group. With the exception of the smaller Leña Dance Company and the duo of Tommy and Andres, each group took to the stage with at least eight dancers, singers, or instrumentalists, and often closer to twenty; Kuumba featured upward of thirty capable voices. Cultural Rhythms 2009 proved once again why it has been tradition that has existed at Harvard for 24 years. In addition to celebrating the cultural diversity of the University, this amazing spectacle drives home the fact that Harvard students possess humbling talent that stretches far beyond...
...Zachery still wonders, as he reflects on the upward path his life followed from that chance encounter. His was the textbook tale: a foot in the door, some hard work and enterprise, and another American gets ahead. Twenty-two years after his lucky break, Zachery was a veteran firefighter earning north of $60,000. Like most firefighters, he always had a second job - delivering pizzas, driving a street sweeper, installing meters for the power company. Eventually he started his own business, demolishing houses condemned by the city. He supported an aging mother, a son in college, a new wife...
...major indicator headed upward was government spending, but only at a 1.6% annual pace. That should rise significantly starting in the second quarter of this year as spending from the recently enacted stimulus package begins to be felt. The effectiveness - or lack thereof - of the stimulus measures will probably determine where this recession goes down in the history books...
...rising number of middle-class Americans felt that their lives were getting worse, and it was with those people that his words resonated. In 1997, in the middle of the dot-com bubble but before Monica Lewinsky, middle-class optimism hit a record high - 57% felt they were moving upward - but it has been sliding back down ever since. A 2008 survey found that roughly half of Americans think they've made no progress and 31% consider themselves worse off than they were five years ago. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...These optimists are focusing on some surprising data emerging from the Chinese economy. The purchasing managers index (PMI) - a measure of the health of the manufacturing sector - has inched upward since November, indicating that China's important industrial sector isn't decelerating as quickly as it did in the preceding months. Most important, Chinese banks doled out nearly $240 billion of new loans in January - a one-month record. Some economists have taken these data as evidence that China's economy has already bottomed out. Merrill Lynch economists Ting Lu and T.J. Bond reaffirmed their bullish 8% GDP-growth estimate...