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Linda Keltner, executive secretary at BU’s Student Activities Office, said that, like Harvard, the university approves 20 to 30 new groups per semester. Many groups, she says, especially special interest groups with a narrow focus, tend to disappear after their founders graduate...
...with any other complex medical study, however, there are some tricky caveats. First off, prostate cancer is treated differently in Scandinavia, where watchful waiting is the norm, than it is in the U.S. Moreover, because Scandinavian men are not screened for prostate cancer as aggressively as American men, they tend to be older when they get their first diagnosis. And though the men in the surgery group were less likely to die of prostate cancer than the watchful waiters, it turned out there was no statistically significant difference in how long they lived...
Insider activity may offer buy and sell signals on individual stocks, though investors should never follow insiders blindly. Sometimes executives buy just because they want to get Wall Street's attention or they misread the market. They also tend to act far in advance of expected news, in part to avoid the appearance of illegal insider trading. So patience is key. New research by Bin Ke and Steven Huddart of Pennsylvania State University and Kathy Petroni of Michigan State suggests that insider activity precedes specific company news by three to nine quarters. The current buying, then, may preface gains that...
Most congressional races are mismatches. Incumbents tend to have bank accounts and name recognition that few challengers can match. But once a decade or so, redistricting forces a pair of incumbents into the same district to fight for one seat. That's what is happening in Connecticut, where two heavyweight pols are locked in the fight of their careers. Come November, one will suddenly be bumped from power...
...Board should be replaced in sexual assault cases by “a board specially trained in issues surrounding sexual assault” is a sure formula for depriving accused students of any semblance of fairness or rational fact-finding procedures. Such narrowly-focused boards at other universities tend to see their duty more in terms of needing to convict the accused in order to promote the “healing” of purported victims, than in terms of searching for the truth. In the real world, such specialized boards have been woeful failures because they perceive themselves more...