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Every year, the weeks before winter break bring final papers, dirty snow and the Undergraduate Council elections. This year, however, the election is rather less exciting than either the recent weather patterns or impending due dates. The two candidates who actually wish to be president—Lauren E. Bonner ’04 and council vice-president Sujean S. Lee ’03—come from different backgrounds on the council but are running on almost identical student-services platforms. The similarity of their platforms makes it difficult to distinguish between the candidates ideologically...
...Warm weather is the culprit behind the birds’ unusually large and noisy presence on campus, according to Douglas Causey, senior vertebrate biologist and ornithologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
December is here, and though snowy weather has yet to arrive, the Christmas season most certainly has. And with it comes that overzealous American “Tickle Me Elmo” kind of shopping. For what is Christmas without an inflated bottom line on a credit card bill...
...Optimism is everywhere - about the recession being short and not too bitter, about tech stocks leading the way back to profits, about the war in Afghanistan, about the economic stimulus package. Even about Enron - up 26 cents to $1.16 - which may actually live to trade weather futures another day with the help of its self-interested rescuers at J.P. Morgan Chase...
More and more senior citizens like the Greenbergs are deciding against traditional warm-weather retirement havens like Florida, Arizona and Southern California and are sticking closer to home. Realtors across the country say they are seeing 25% to 50% more retirees stay in or near their hometown, compared with five years ago. In fact, notes Kevin Roth, senior economist with the National Association of Realtors in Washington, "home buyers over the age of 65 move an average of just 15 miles away from their current abodes...