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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his team are starting to look like short-order cooks stuck in a perpetual lunch-hour rush. The worse the economic crisis gets, the more confidence- and liquidity-boosting measures they cook up, from the Bear Stearns deal last spring to the AIG bailout last month...
...Whichever path the Crimson follows this season, all roads lead to the final dual meet against No. 4 Cornell, in which the MAC banners of past glory could very well bear witness to a new chapter in the tradition of Harvard wrestling...
...spirit of excitement,” Treuer said. “A couple of years before, she was just a minor political figure you’d recognize while shopping at Costco.” Earlier this year, the Alaska Klub—whose main events are the Polar Bear Swim and Human Iditarod—deemed this year the “Year of Alaska” in honor of Palin. The group’s Facebook profile advertises an open forum—time and location to be announced—on Sarah Palin...
...Indignation” flies by so inexplicably that whatever intention Roth had–whether to explore consciousness, to meditate on his own life, or to tease out an historical period obscured by cultural memory–feels ignored. Whether “Indignation” could bear the weight of a longer story is uncertain, but it certainly wouldn’t feel so slight.—Staff writer Ryan Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
Moganshan Road calls itself the center of modern art in Shanghai. I arrived prepared to bear witness to the fruit of the Chinese art boom, the boom that The Asia Times calls an “artistic renaissance,” not unlike the “emergence of Western Modernism more than 100 years ago.” A tough act to follow indeed, especially if your country was closed off from the rest of the world for much of that time...