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...still explaining why he wasn't on particular conference calls during the Bear Stearns meltdown in March. (He told the Wall Street Journal he missed one call because the time changed, and he was involved in other calls throughout the weekend.) When he appears alongside Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury secretary Hank Paulson at press events he can seem dwarfed in stature, the representative of an agency with its roots not in sweeping monetary policy but in humble consumer protection. Created by Congress in 1934, at the height of the Great Depression, the SEC is charged with making...
...extensive list of athletes who came close to wearing crimson. This history is largely anecdotal and has accumulated over generations. It begins with James Connolly, the first modern Olympic champion, who left Harvard to compete in the 1896 Athens Olympics. The chronicle continues today with the likes of Frank Ben-Eze who rescinded his commitment to play basketball at Harvard and, instead, chose Davidson...
...Crimson 23 and a first down. The drive finished with a touchdown pass from Randolph to Jon Brock and a successful extra point kick from Matt Partain, giving Holy Cross the 7-3 lead. Harvard’s second possession started off with a 15-yard run by Ben Jenkins, the junior safety-turned-tailback, but ended much like its first. After getting a first down at the Crusader 19 with a 12-yard pass to Iannuzzi, an incomplete pass and two short rushes forced Harvard to settle for another field goal. “Third down is something...
...When it comes to the tumultuous financial markets of the past year, countless editorialists, economists, and even some public officials have likened the current crisis to the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Savings and Loans debacle of the late 1980s. And who better than Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, that erudite, Ivy League scholar of the Great Depression, to steer the world’s largest economy away from the abyss of the past...
...Crimson 23 and a first down. The drive finished with a touchdown pass from Randolph to Jon Brock and a successful extra point kick from Matt Partain, giving Holy Cross the 7-3 lead.Harvard’s second possession started off with a 15-yard run by Ben Jenkins, the junior safety-turned-tailback. Though Jenkins is likely to get a majority of the handoffs, junior Cheng Ho ran some plays in the second quarter, and Gordon was used primarily in the fourth quarter.“Jenkins has done a terrific job all preseason, something that...