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Spring break may have meant a break from class, but it also meant that the Harvard track teams had plenty to do. The teams spent the week in Texas, competing at the Texas Southern Relays on March 23 and 24 and the Victor Lopez Bayou Classic at Rice this past weekend. The events were the Crimson’s first of the outdoor season, and the team got a critical training week in better weather.“It’s a really important week,” junior Christopher Green said. “Just having a week...
...concerns are twofold. The first is fraud, which was underscored last year when the principals of Bayou Management pleaded guilty to bilking investors of $450 million by telling some fairly brazen lies. Regulators are examining whether some hedge funds may be making illegal insider trades in certain situations, as when companies privately talk to their lenders...
Langguth further describes the condition of the bayou and Jackson’s often shaky “backbay defense...
...economy and tax base were beginning to falter. Our family trips became far less frequent, limited to the pursuit of necessities that couldn't be obtained in suburban shopping malls, medical appointments at the downtown offices of specialists and our annual trek to the Superdome for the Bayou Classic football game. When asked, my father declined to articulate precisely what made him grow so uneasy about the Big Easy, beyond his stock response: "New Orleans is changing. It's gotten so dirty and dangerous down there." It's true that he was a black Mississippi country boy raised...
...fields that his company operates in the Mississippi Delta. The CEO of EnerVest, a Houston energy-asset-management firm, was luckier than most. Katrina spared four of his fields, though the damage to a fifth was ugly. The storm blew a barge five miles down the bayou from its moorings in marshy Garden Island Bay. Nearly every piece of oil equipment was destroyed, and Walker estimates it will take several months to get that field running at full capacity. "When there's this much damage, there are only so many spare barges, compressors and generators out there," he says...