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...someone who can walk into a room of strangers and come out with at least one new best friend,” breaking into the Harvard community was not so much of a challenge. (Note: she also made an appearance at the Fly party with her boyfriend, Oliver J. Bell ’03, who is also a Crimson editor.) After having to leave Manhattanville College in New York after just one year because of family illness, Vaghar has used her experience at Harvard to make new friends and continue work for some of her favorite causes. As an active...
Though the market dropped after the bell rang, earlier predictions of panicked selling were thankfully proven false. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan acted forcefully to maintain confidence, making half-point cuts in the interest rate to provide easier credit to businesses. The European Central Bank quickly followed suit, leading to a rally rather than a decline in European markets...
...Problem was, the post-apocalyptic resumption of U.S. stock trading Monday was also arguably the most breathlessly anticipated session of all time. Three thousand traders crowd the floor of the NYSE every day, but as we all milled around outside in the hours before the reopening bell - breathing air still gray and bitter with smoke and dust and dawn - they were easily outnumbered by the professional gawkers who had descended on the Big Board from all over the world, panning for soundbites, owing copy...
...began watching the direct feed of the one event NYSE chairman Richard Grasso really wanted us to see: the well-polished head of NYSE chairman Richard Grasso delivering his opening line - "Welcome back to the greatest market in the world" - and preparing to ring the opening bell...
...Then came the two-minute moment of silence (broken once by an inadvertent bell) and the Marine woman singing "God Bless America" in an operatic tremolo, and finally, at 9:34, the bells dinged, Grasso beamed, and the stock market was back from the ashes...