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...Harvard had actually beaten Dartmouth in December, and the rematch in New Hampshire on Jan. 8 proved no different. In another upset, Harvard won 48-43. Poor shooting prevailed on both sides, but Harvard once again neutralized star Big Green center Shaun Gee, holding him to seven points...
...said to have beaten out 50 others--including some from outside Harvard--for the spot. At the beginning of his tenure, the school had just switched from a semester system to a year-round structure and was changing its M.B.A. program...
...Lawrence P. Largley, a 17-year-old Cambridge resident, dies of unknown causes in a jail cell just hours after he is arrested and allegedly beaten by police. Three days of rioting in the Roosevelt district of Cambridge follow...
That's why you might consider selling some stocks to pay down debt. The stocks you keep should be diversified but tilted away from high-risk tech issues and toward reliable blue chips that earn good money in any economy. Food and drug stocks are examples. Beaten down cyclical stocks like airlines and advertising could run while rates are rising--so long as we don't fall into recession. Financial stocks will perk up as the rate increases come...
...capitalism is a Western invention, Westerners are not the only ones who can master it. For cultural reasons, capitalism is in many ways more natural to Asia than it ever was to the West. The devotion to one's task as the hallmark of productive work had to be beaten into a mostly balky peasantry in Europe, even while such dedication flourished under Confucianism. Today the work ethic in China puts the U.S. to shame. Imagine what will happen when technology and innovation join with what some U.S. experts in the 1960s contemptuously called "ant labor" in China...