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These companies were blinded by the dust of an economy skidding to a halt. Corporate profits dropped 8% in the first quarter, a stunning reversal from the double-digit growth forecast last year. Not wanting to get it wrong again, a lot of CEOs are simply saying they'll have to wait and see. Worsening the vision void, new regulations require that companies say nothing unless they say it in a venue for all to hear. Regulation FD (fair disclosure) has curtailed guidance on earnings...
...lampoon Mitchell's prose or the narrative devices of GWTW. In fact, she sometimes echoes the romantic swells of the original: "How is it that the South, the world of chivalry and slavery and great white houses and red land and white cotton, is gone, forever gone, in the dust, blown off and away...
Those seeds of inspiration from which senior theses spring are found in many places. Some students search the bowels of Widener, conversing with cracked tomes and sun-starved dust particles. Others wrestle with armies of spreadsheet numbers, prodding this column and that variable in search of deeper trends. Charity D. Shumway ’01 cracked open her mother’s private diaries...
Also featured at the film festival will be the Lesbian Short Film Program (May 4), a compilation of short films touching on a wide variety of subjects and lengths. Above the Dust Level, for example, is a 12-minute Australian film by Carla Drago about stolen men’s underwear, cross-dressing ex-lovers, AIDS and one woman’s obsession with allergies and dust. Girl Under the Table, a three minute film by Dominique Zeltzmann, is about a young girl who recalls, “when I was six, I fell in love...
...forget June 4, 1989. At a time when China was opening up its economy to the West with alarming swiftness, the world watched in horror as tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square and the Chinese army murdered peaceful demonstrators. The world was outraged, but after the dust had cleared, trade negotiations quickly resumed. Twelve years after Tiananmen, China has not begun to improve its record on human rights...