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...cuts amount to a 2.5 percent reduction in the School's staff workforce, according to FAS spokesman Steve Bradt, who also said that no faculty were affected by the downsizing. He declined to state where the layoffs occurred, saying only that they were spread throughout FAS. But Harvard College Library, a unit of FAS, was the source of roughly 20 of those 77 layoffs, according to an announcement last week that also said the libraries had cut hours for several others employees...
The Harvard men’s soccer team will look back on its 2008 season and forever wonder what could have been.What if outgoing co-captain and star forward Michael Fucito had not been forced off the field by injury after only 30 minutes in the 1-0 loss to...
...Burnstein is a member, had been "looking into how to attract Hollywood," he says. "But this wasn't just about bringing money into the state. It was a matter of the taxpayers we were already losing." Tena Constas is one of those prodigal Michiganders, a location scout for Betty Anne Waters who recently moved back after five years in Chicago. One of the draws? "Everything costs less here," she says. Constas bought a three-unit house and rents out two of the flats to visiting crew members. She even made some extra money when the director of an HBO pilot...
...temptingly inexpensive, experts warn they should be vacation plays, not investment plays. "Don't buy it to flip it," cautions Howard Nusbaum, president of the American Resort Development Association. Buyers need to be cautious and carefully read all the fine print in the contracts, especially when purchasing a resale unit. State laws regulate sales of new time-shares but not resales...
...more moderately priced homes is weak as well. Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University in Atlanta, estimates that each year between 2002 and 2006, some 68,000 permits for new homes were issued here, even as only 30,000 jobs were being added annually. "Now," Dhawan says, "it's catching up." The shrinking corps of real estate agents here are taking desperate measures, like offering two-bedroom condos for the price of a one-bedroom unit...