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...Sound and the Fury, (Faulkner wrote that Harvard was a place “where the best of thought clings like dead ivy vines upon old dead brick”). Alongside it stands a display on Harvard’s poets, which chronicles the lives of Eliot, Frost, Lowell, and Stevens, and reveals that Gertrude Stein did not, in spite of the popular myth, receive an “A” for writing that it was far too nice a day to take an exam on the final for a William James-taught psychology seminar...
...have soon found themselves stripped of a committee: just look at John Dingell and Jane Harman - two Dems who clashed with Pelosi and who somehow ended up losing their committee chairmanships. She also tends to reward supporters with plum assignments over those who fought her. Former Texas Rep. Martin Frost waited for years to get on the Appropriations Committee and, after challenging Pelosi for minority leader, soon watched fellow Texan Chet Edwards get a coveted committee seat. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...Washington on health care reform and carbon-emission regulation. Even companies that are financially fit often don't feel like taking the risk of ramping up operations and hiring more workers. There's been political pressure on banks to lend, but the problem for some bankers, like Frost Bank CEO Dick Evans, is that many businesses are debt-shy. "I'm aggressively trying to make loans, but right now they don't want to borrow," he says. "At this point," says Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael Porter, "the No. 1 thing that will create jobs is the perception...
...first is a 12% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since the study began - the same CO2 increase implicated in global warming. The second is the warming itself. And the third is an increase in the growing season, defined as the length of time between the last frost in spring and the first frost in fall, which is also a consequence of warming. "We couldn't narrow it down further than that," says Parker. (See the top 10 invasive species...
...floundering, is to witness a small crime against comedy expertise. As sad as this is, it's no shock, since the director, Mark Steven Johnson, and writers David Diamond and David Weissman are bad-movie recidivists, having previously been guilty of perpetrating Grumpy Old Men, Old Dogs, Jack Frost and other comedy misdemeanors. When in Rome, because of its two agreeable leads, is probably their least egregious work to date...