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...Harvard Divinity School saw an 11 percent increase in total applicants this year, prompted in large part by the weak economy and HDS’s increased efforts to reach prospective students, said Maritza S. Hernandez, associate dean of student services at the school...
Investors worldwide were sharing the same anxiety over the weekend - and it arose early on Monday to take down markets everywhere. Hours before Wall Street woke up to a March snowstorm, Tokyo's chronically weak stock market avalanched 3.04%; shares of Hong Kong stocks were down steeply too, falling 3.68%; European markets were mostly off 4% or more. As the day progressed, Latin markets fell in tandem with U.S. - Argentina's bourse closed down...
There were no safe havens: Energy shares declined 7% as the price of crude slipped. Financials were weak, natch, with Citigroup, the day's most active stock, losing 30 cents to close at $1.20. General Electric, which slashed its dividend last week, lost another 92 cents to close at 7.50. Even safer stocks, like drug maker Pfizer, took a beating, losing 5.3% to close...
...these comparisons are a bit weak, and considering the myriad of nonsensical house t-shirts that have made their way onto the bosoms of many Harvard students, we don't think the tenuous relationship between Pertile and Corleone is a cause for concern. The real issue seems to be, is a comparison to Corleone necessarily a bad thing? Also, the t-shirt's a joke, if you didn't notice (via the Eliot list...
...financial justification for the fee is weak at best. Certainly, the cost of processing an add/drop form is nowhere near $10 per person. Moreover, it is unlikely that it costs nothing to process a schedule on the third Monday of a term but $10 to do so on the third Tuesday. Even supposing the administrative burden were that expensive, the College should draw this fee from the $32,000 in tuition it has already extracted from each student, presumably for such academic purposes...