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...market opened on a sharp down note after absorbing a weekend of anxiety over AIG, the black hole of an insurance company that is swallowing another $30 billion of government assistance with no assurance that it won't need more. Monday morning, AIG reported a colossal loss of $61.66 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008. Citigroup also cast its own dark shadow with news last week that the government will convert preferred shares it owns for up to a 36% stake in the troubled financial services firm...
...HARVARD 1The Jayhawks came out strong and didn’t relent yesterday morning, crossing the plate seven times in the second inning in a run-rule game that was shortened to five innings.Vertovez gave up six earned runs in just 1.1 innings of work, while junior Margaux Black was touched for three runs in 1.1 innings of relief.Freshman Julia Moore was perfect in her 1.1 innings. Though the Crimson was down, 10-0, heading into the top of the fifth, freshman Jane Alexander managed to get her team on the scoreboard.The rookie ripped a double down the left-field...
...while each delivered lines marked by his own cadence (Cianci, for example, often stopped and looked pointedly at the audience to elicit laughter), it was clear that they represented one voice.In many ways, the original design of Gray’s performances was preserved. The set consisted of three black platforms, some dark simple furniture on which the actors perched, and a simple backdrop that changed color as the monologues changed in tone and content. Each actor took turns reading Gray’s words from their black binder, occasionally moving around the set but never breaking out of character.The...
...butcher shop and grocer frequented and made famous by Child. Students went behind-the-scenes at the butchering station, learning about the preparation of the store’s famed meats, which range from the ordinary—chicken and pancetta—to the exotic—llama, black bear, and Brazilian python. General Manager Juliana Lyman offered a tasting of Savenor’s gourmet products: maple smoked salmon with crème fraiche on water wheel crackers, goat cheese on crusty baguette slices, and freshly seared prime rare strip steak—all washed down with Pellegrino...
Yesterday the Undergraduate Council voted unanimously to approve TKTS, a program through which the UC will raffle off free tickets every week to campus and local events. Last week the UC ran a trial run of the program and raffled off 32 tickets to both Cultural Rhythms and the Black Students Association’s Renaissance Ball. Nearly 200 students applied for tickets, according to Kia J. McLeod ’10, UC vice-president. “I feel like we are finding alternative ways to help social life without doing what we used to do in the past...