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...star-crossed: Friday the 13th in the month of October, on the eve of the second anniversary of a devastating market crash. "I'm telling you, psychology is really funny. People get crazy in situations like that," said portfolio strategist Elaine Garzarelli. Last week Friday the 13th lived up to its frightful reputation. After drifting lower at a sleepy pace for most of the day, the Dow Jones industrial average abruptly lurched into a hair- raising sky dive in the final hour of trading. By the time the 4 p.m. closing bell halted the rout, the index had dropped...
...easier money, as it did in 1987 to restore confidence. One fervent hope was that high-rolling investors would come roaring back into the market, looking for bargains. But while it was easy to attribute last week's chiller to everything from program trading to superstition about Friday the 13th, there was a deeper message: confidence in the stock market will remain shaky as long as the U.S. economy rests on a mountain of debt that neither politicians in Washington nor business leaders on Wall Street seem willing to confront...
...teams will be participating in a five-match round-robin, but for all practical purposes, it is a three-team battle. Brown (ranked 13th in the country), UMass (ranked 17th), and Harvard (ranked 19th) will all be shooting for the crown which will determine the all-important number-one seeding for the New England Championships in two weeks...
...third season, this undergraduate arts gallery, housed underneath Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, features the art of superstition this month as a tribute to both Friday the 13th and Halloween. Presenting photography, painting, music and written texts, the Triptych show also features a videotaped interview of people explaining why they believe in superstition. A provocative look at the bizarre, the show runs through the end of the month...
This year's Penn game certainly has something to do with it. The Quakers were the 13th-ranked team in the nation before they faced the Crimson on October 1 at Soldiers Field. Penn fell, 2-1. The Quaker field hockey dynasty--it had won three Ivy titles in the last four years--was crumbling...