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...retirement incentive plan comes to fruition, it will not be the first time Harvard has offered to increase pension benefits for staffers who retire early. During an economic recession in 1991, the University created an early retirement incentive program for all non-faculty employees over the age of 55 who had worked for the University for at least 10 years...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: FAS Considers Retirement Package | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...latitudes - that includes Europe and America in the Northern Hemisphere - by a couple of weeks. The growing season is defined as the period between the last frost in spring and first frost in the fall. Some crops that need the whole growing season would not reach fruition and there would be no yield. Others would grow more slowly and produce a small yield. In addition there would be less precipitation and it would be darker, also damaging yield. You compound that with [the shutdown of] the current global network of food trading - countries would likely stop shipping food and focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regional Nuclear War and the Environment | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...outrage of genocide and executed the plan with technological precision; if the Germans could do it, anyone could. The victims: the Jews, eternal outsiders, were traditionally treated by Christians with an uneasy mixture of envy and enmity. Here was the seed of ordinary anti-Semitism brought to rancid fruition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defiance: Beyond Holo-kitsch | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...Malaysia in 1971 on a spiritual calling and, finding master musicians and dancers among his new devotees, turned his life's work into becoming an impresario - eventually creating Temples of Fine Arts in Singapore, Australia, India and Sri Lanka as well. The swami died in 2005, long before the fruition of his work in K.L., which when fully operational will comprise a 600-seat auditorium, an art gallery, seven dance studios, 12 music rooms and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Inspiration | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...weavers of false hope can convince us of a happily-ever-after between an African-American and an amphibian, we should call to mind a few of Disney’s past lovers and their lies. 5. Simba and Nala—Some of the greatest romances come to fruition over a song and a passionate lip-lock. But lions can neither sing nor kiss! Nice try, Disney, but you can’t pull the fur over these eyes, and I felt no love tonight. 4. Bambi and Faline—As Bambi watches over Faline and their fawns...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Five Disney Lovers and Their Lies | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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