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Nine members of Harvard’s international community still have not arrived in Cambridge because of visa delays. But officials in the Harvard International Office (HIO) say this number—the lowest since Sept. 11, 2001—is an encouraging portent for those still awaiting documentation...
...nights (in mid-February, late March and early May), that electricity is palpable - partly because each revival is done only five or six times, partly because of the symbiosis between the dedicated professionals on stage and the knowledgeable enthusiasts in the seats. Thus every performance has the panache and portent of a classic Broadway opening night. The commercial musical theater still has its appeal, but for me Encores! is the toniest show in town...
...economic commentary may not cause as much speculation and anxiety as that of U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, but the words of China's Premier Wen Jiabao have taken on new portent in global financial markets. The fast-growing Chinese economy, the world's sixth largest, is experiencing irrational exuberance, mainland style, and it's up to Wen to reassure everyone that Beijing can ease the country's growth rate from last year's torrid (unofficial) rate of 11.5% to single-digit levels?and do so without causing a crash that slashes China's demand for imports...
...stop it? Washington buzzed with these questions last week as the Bush administration defended itself against charges from its erstwhile counter-terrorism czar, Richard A. Clarke, that it did not do all it could have to avert the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Amidst this brouhaha, an ominous portent of further and more deadly attacks upon American soil went virtually unnoticed. The North Korean regime of Kim Jong Il, through its mouthpiece Radio Pyongyang, explicitly rejected America’s demand for the “complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantling” of its nuclear weapons program. Now that...
...first “flash mob” in New England gathered in Harvard Square yesterday, bringing one of the newest and quirkiest Internet fads—and the portent of a new sort of sociological phenomenon, some say—to Cambridge...