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Indeed, the announcement was the statistical end of Japan?s longest recession since World War II. But you know what they say about statistics. "There?s not much evidence here of a genuine economic turnaround," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "This is a natural reaction to the huge amount of money that has been dumped into the economy by government spending. It may only be a dead-cat bounce...
Harvard's longest serving dean of students, Archie C. Epps III, announced this year that he will step down from his post and, through black tie celebrations and fond letters, students have lined up to pay tribute to the retiring dean...
...Loker professor of English, who currently enjoys the distinction of being the longest serving master, announced this fall that after 26 years at the helm of Adams, he and wife Jana would step down...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] Kurt Osburn April 13, 1999 [MODE] Doing a wheelie on a bike [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 50 miles a day for 70 days [THE CAUSE? Hepatitis C (and to break his 11-hr. record for longest wheelie) PREPARATION] Put an extra-large seat on his BMX bike...
...letter about the boy she met at Middlebury College. She opened it gleefully and sat back to read the articles his parents had sent her about his graduating with honors, despite fighting stomach cancer. She left me the part she didn't see--his obituary. Those were the longest seconds of my life, knowing I was about to shatter her happiness with such heartbreaking news...