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...That's what put a pillow under Friday's sell-off - the slightly starry-eyed hope that the uptick in unemployment to 4.3 percent would spur Greenspan to between-the-meetings action. Consumer confidence, after all, is all about having a job and expecting to keep it, and no matter how low 4.3 is on the historical scale, the trend is now officially an upward one. Here's how the market logic goes: short trading week, low volume, no economic reports (save inflation on Thursday, but that's not a real headliner these days) - a perfect time...
...already adopted this practice, so that students may review a lecture that they did not understand or missed due to illness. Placing lectures on the Web would likely have little more effect on class attendance than keeping the tapes on reserve in libraries, and any such effect would only spur professors to take more questions and interact with students to a greater degree. Online lectures would also be a benefit to Harvard students not enrolled in the class, who could now audit courses regardless of scheduling and make more informed decisions on their course choices. However, we recognize that many...
...raise the intellectual tenor of the op-ed page, and probably save a lot of paper too. Rest assured, someone in the Harvard community is bound to conduct an “unsupported generalization” watch to help you in your quest. Thank goodness we have protesters to spur these much-needed editorial advances...
...Salmonella, which causes 600 deaths in the U.S. each year, can spur reactions ranging from vomiting and diarrhea to death, with symptoms being especially acute among children and the elderly, whose immune systems are often unable to deal with the bacteria...
...campaign to blame sanctions for the suffering of Iraqi children. A few years ago, growing criticism obliged Washington to let Baghdad start selling its oil under U.N. supervision to pay for medicine and food. Also, it was inevitable that economic hardship in the countries bordering Iraq would spur growing commerce with Baghdad, legal or not. By last week's summit even Kuwait had acknowledged that sanctions had run their course and the new Bush Administration admitted they were collapsing...