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Rumor has it that Harvard will soon unveil the identity of this year's commencement speaker. So while Harvard officials remain tight-lipped, Flyby has put together a list of who not to cross your fingers for. Commencement would-be horrors after the jump...
Until now, neither had really put together the type of season he knew he was capable of producing. But while the players have both made huge strides this year, their improvements have been the result of two very different approaches...
...market reacted negatively to the government's plan on Monday, with the S&P 500 dropping nearly 3.5% on fears that bankruptcy was inevitable for GM and Chrysler - a fear that the Administration did little to calm. President Obama, in his speech announcing the deal on Monday, tried to put a good face on things, laying out measures to save the companies, soften the blow to autoworkers and encourage auto sales with guaranteed warranties and car-buying tax incentives. But, he said, "these efforts, as essential as they are, are not going to make everything better overnight. There are jobs...
...Some high-end foreign boutiques like Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen, which opened in Moscow just a year ago, have also closed their doors. Italian jeans retailer Diesel recently shut all its shops in Russia. Still, if Russia's fashion industry has one thing to put its faith in, it is the Russian consumer's penchant for flair. "It's in the Russian character to be flashy. They'd never go for a simple style. They'd never spend lots of money to look like a street sweeper," says Ageyeva. "That will never change...
...least 25%, and property prices are down as much as 50% since August of last year. But while there is some respite from the dawn-to-dusk hammering and drilling that came with Dubai's construction boom, some $8 billion in projects have now been either scrapped or put on hold. The city's notoriously brutal traffic jams have eased somewhat in recent weeks since the reported exodus of thousands of expatriates, who make up more than 85% of Dubai's population. The departures, however, could also be a sign of job losses: foreigners are generally not permitted to live...