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...move that reflects the administration’s developing priorities, Provost Steven E. Hyman has named a career researcher and a Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrator to the newly created position of assistant provost for science policy...
Today, just after 1:05 p.m., Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler will sing the national anthem before Pedro Martinez throws the first pitch of the 2002 Boston Red Sox season. In most years, the anthem would be an afterthought, a brief formality preceding each of the season’s 162 games. But last year, when baseball resumed after Sept. 11, the tension in the air during the anthem was palpable. Especially during the World Series, as military action had begun in Afghanistan, Francis Scott Key’s dramatic lyrics had renewed significance for generations of Americans...
...strongman's son goes on trial in Indonesia for murdering a judge. One can only pity the jurist who gets to hear this case PETER BUCK R.E.M. star charged for drunkenness on a plane. This will actually increase his likelihood of making the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame STEVEN SEAGAL Butt-kicking Buddhist sued for $60 million by a former partner. Unfairly, not a penny of that will go to people who sat through Under Siege...
...main reason is to get stock prices up," says Steven Kaplan, a finance professor at the University of Chicago. When times were flush, mergers allowed companies to increase earnings and inflate their share prices quickly. But mergers often create strange hybrids - like power companies trying to sell insurance - and anticipated economies of scale often don't materialize. So now, "there is a trend away from conglomerates, there is a distaste for them because there is a lack of clarity and transparency, and they often fail to deliver diversification benefits," says Steve Russell, U.K. strategist at HSBC Investment Bank. Corporations...
2002’s best film, Steven Spielberg’s critically debated and audience-panned A.I., was unsurprisingly ignored by the Academy (except for in the visual effects and score categories). The public’s (and the Academy’s) reaction to A.I. is indicative of a grander thought on the state of American cinema. A.I. was the only film last year that was in any way daring (except for perhaps the jarring L.I.E.), but not in the way traditionally, and quite annoyingly, associated with new stylings of cinema. It didn’t have violent deaths...