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...Harvard spokesman could not be reached for comment late last night, but the University has maintained a policy of not commenting on dean searches. Bloxham declined to comment on the search last week, and he and Kosslyn did not return requests for comment yesterday. Bloxham’s decision to decline the deanship was first reported last week by the undergraduate blog Gadfly...
...slow China's breakneck economy. On Monday, Beijing also announced it was taking a 10 percent stake in the Blackstone Group, the big U.S. private equity firm that is about to go public on the New York Stock exchange, indicating that Beijing would like to earn a slightly better return on at least some of its $1.2 trillion (and climbing) in foreign exchange reserves. But at $3 billion, the Blackstone investment is really just a drop in the bucket, while the economy-slowing moves on Friday may on balance serve to increase China's ongoing trade deficit by depressing...
...some of the Senate's key guest-worker provisions are impractical at best. That includes the requirement that after two years working in the U.S., migrants must return to their home countries for a year before they can renew their status and come back to the States. No Mexican campesino I've ever met follows that kind of truncated migrant schedule. If he's not allowed to renew his two-year guest-worker stint immediately, he'll simply make another illegal crossing - and return to the same undocumented shadows we were trying to lure...
...trust that this letter finds you in good health, and that you have a desire to protect said health. If the school closes down for an entire five weeks in January, I will have to return to the orphanage of my childhood, where those filthy brats picked on me and I was forced to become a dark lord in retribution. I detest that orphanage and you’ll be dead sorry if you change the calendar...
...sold on the international markets, commonly using a false certificate of origin or blended with other oil to disguise its origin. More and more frequently, however, co-opted employees in Iraq's Ministry of Oil help document the oil. Traders can expect to make a 4% return on the oil for themselves, with the rest of the money going to Fadhila and other militias...