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U.S. consumers a little more optimistic

Published March 31, 2009 at 11:29 a.m.

NEW YORK – The mood of U.S. consumers improved slightly this month after falling sharply in February, in preliminary results released today by The Conference Board. The board’s U.S. Consumer Confidence Index improved to 26 points from last … ...

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Providence Place owners staying afloat

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Published March 31, 2009 at 11:06 a.m.

The owner of the Providence Place mall has managed to avoid bankruptcy for now.  ...

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DOT, governor unveil budget portals

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Published March 31, 2009 at 10:25 a.m.

PROVIDENCE – The State of Rhode Island yesterday launched two new budget-tracking Web sites, which will report expenditures by the governor’s office and the R.I. Department of Transportation. “This transparency portal can play an important … ...

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Crime goes up in Providence

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Published March 31, 2009 at 9:55 a.m.

There was an increase in crime in Providence in 2008 ...

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Mollis: R.I. corporate reports due today

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Published March 31, 2009 at 9:42 a.m.

PROVIDENCE – For-profit corporations doing business in Rhode Island have until tonight to file their annual reports with the state, or face possible fines and loss of corporate status, according to R.I. Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis. Data … ...

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Realtors: As home prices drop, sales increase

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Published March 31, 2009 at 12:15 a.m.

WARWICK – With the median sale price plummeting, single-family home sales in Rhode Island in February rose year over year by 7.8 percent, according to the Rhode Island Association of Realtors ...

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The true meaning of an open mind

Published March 30, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

To the Editor: ... The phrase "false equivalency" came to mind when reading Fatima Aqeel's '12 recent column ("A tale of two speakers," March 18). Equating John Edwards' marital indiscretions to John Yoo's legal work as part of the Department of Justice is highly unfair to John Edwards ...

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Jonathan Topaz '12: Taken for a ride

Published March 30, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

To answer a question posed at John Edwards' lecture in the De Ciccio Family Auditorium a couple of weeks ago, it seems that the voting public has no business holding politicians to a "higher moral standard." ...

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Mary Bates GS: Have you hugged your TA today?

Published March 30, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

One of the goals of graduate education is to transform the student from a consumer of knowledge to a producer of knowledge. A major aspect of this training involves developing one's own line of independent research. But there is another, more pedestrian facet of this training - TAing undergraduate classes ...

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Brown's pharmaceutical problem

Published March 30, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

Contentious ethical questions about relationships between medical schools and pharmaceutical companies rocked Brown last September, when The Herald reported that a member of the Alpert Medical School faculty with ties to pharmaceuticals was being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee ...

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