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...tone for the rest of the year. They assume that companies have been pounded into submission and that this has produced pessimism. In this climate, corporate management teams have decreased their forecasts to levels which they cannot fail to beat or match. It is like fixing a fight or a horse race, but it is legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boring Earnings Season with Bogus Forecasts | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...Crocker says, you don’t fight the horse—you work with...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grabbing the Reins | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...California Medical Marijuana Fight: Up in Smoke? U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder indicated on March 18 that he would not prosecute sellers of medical marijuana where it is legal under state law, reversing the Bush Administration's zero-tolerance policy. A federal judge in Los Angeles has already postponed the sentencing of a convicted marijuana-dispensary operator, asking the Justice Department to further clarify its stance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...with you, and you are with us.”After the ceremony, Robert E. Christiano, the associate director of campus operations at HMS, escorted the protestors out of the building.Benjamin J. Oldfield, a medical student, said that he and other students will continue to fight to reemploy the workers.“Harvard says it has trimmed all the fat and the layoffs are a last resort,” Oldfield said. “This is something that, as students, is hard to reconcile with the excesses we see on campus.”Ana Guevara...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Staff Refuse To Accept Layoffs | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...eventually staged a dramatic rescue of the embassy hostages in 1997. That same year, he insisted to TIME that his counterinsurgency operations had not violated human rights. "Draconian measures were needed here, and I wouldn't agree that Peruvians now demand more flexibility from the judicial system in our fight," he said. "Democratic rules and human rights haven't been set aside in the emergency, though some mistakes were made." (Read "The Trials of Alberto Fujimori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fujimori's Last Stand: Peru's Ex-President Found Guilty | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

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