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...with their soon-to-be neighbors and for everybody else to renew their House pride. When House formals are sold out to the highest bidder, they revert back to being regular weekend parties, with the uniting factor being fancy attire, not residential allegiance. Formals are best when you can wake up the next day and have brunch with those same revelers in your own dining hall...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: House Life (Or Best Offer) | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...outbreaks have been a minor catastrophe for pork producers. Though international health officials were quick to assure the public that the disease initially known as swine flu could not be contracted by eating pork, consumption of pig products dropped rapidly in the wake of the virus's spread. "That is our biggest concern - the economic impact of people shying away from eating our product over fear," C. Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield Foods, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on May 5. The National Pork Producers Council estimated that between April 24 and May 1 - the most frenzied days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: H1N1 Virus: The First Legal Action Targets a Pig Farm | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...leaving their posts by the end of this year. Herschbach is accepting the voluntary early retirement package and will leave in the fall after almost three decades at Harvard, while Rinere will become Dean of Advising and Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia. Their departures come in the wake of another senior College official’s departure, as Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities Judith H. Kidd confirmed late last month that she will also be accepting the retirement package, which allows staff over 55 years of age to voluntarily retire if they have worked at Harvard...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Administrators To Leave Posts | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...Attended Wake Forest University for two years before transferring to Florida State University. Elected both student body vice president and homecoming king, he graduated in 1978 with a degree in government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Governor Charlie Crist | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...right now?" she asks. "Or is it actually pushing us towards instability in order to achieve its agenda of obtaining access and control over our nuclear assets?" Says Rashid: "All of us go by conspiracy theories. We are all blaming somebody else for our mistakes. Why don't we wake up and start blaming ourselves?" (See pictures of Pakistan's lawyers celebrating victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pakistan Failed Itself | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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