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Officials at the University Health Services will advise all undergraduates to be vaccinated against swine flu in sharp contrast to Massachusetts policy and to a just-completed Harvard Medical School study that will recommend against mass immunization of young adults...
Normally, it can take years for companies to cash in these tax credits, and when they do their value may be greatly diminished if inflation has reared up. But the stimulus is producing a sharp turnaround in the economy, allowing companies to cash in their credits sooner than usual. What's more, continued low inflation is allowing the credits to retain their value. (See the top 10 tax dodgers...
...what some analysts are hailing as a sign of U.S. economic recovery, General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Toyota all reported a rise in sales in October compared with the same month last year, despite a sharp slump following the end of the Obama Administration's Cash for Clunkers incentive program in August. Ford--the only Detroit automaker to avoid bankruptcy and federal bailouts--reported $1 billion in third-quarter profits, helped in large part by an increase in market share as Chrysler's sales continued to lag. GM, the nation's largest car manufacturer, posted its first year-over...
...willingness to listen to and acknowledge criticism, had begun to undermine the prevailing Pakistani image of the U.S. as arrogant and bossy, more interested in having the Pakistani military fight its war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban than in having a true strategic partnership. The contrast was especially sharp after George W. Bush's eight years of unqualified support for the military dictatorship of Pervez Musharraf. "In the past, when the Americans came, they would talk to the generals and go home," said Farahnaz Ispahani, a government spokeswoman and Member of Parliament. "Clinton's willingness to meet with everyone...
...Barney's "I Love You" song being played at prisons in Iraq. I'm definitely, definitely not accusing the movie of the thing I accused the media of doing in the book. And in fact, that stuff about Barney being turned into a funny story is the kind of sharp, dark end of the movie. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist when it comes to the whole Barney thing because I think [the U.S. military] deliberately disseminated it to make torture seem funny. I think they saw an opportunity and went...