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Before her time was up, Warren gave Stewart a brief history lesson about the financial panics the U.S. endured about every 10 to 15 years until the Great Depression hit. She said that the regulation after the Great Depression was what kept the economy stable for so long, but since the govenment has started cutting back on regulations, the country is again been ravaged by financial programs...
...Harvard Advocate's Winter 2009 issue, themed Archives, is now available in or around your dining hall. But before you grab a copy with your hangover tomorrow morning, check out this brief rundown...
...Read a brief history of Muzak...
...Bach, a cappella, Yellowcard … pretty much everything!” filled in for “Favorite Music” and $30,000 paid by the Harvard Concert Commission for Wyclef Jean to stay home. The compromise pick of Ben Folds ushered in a brief detente, but it was immediately followed by a long nightmare of Third Eye Blind, Gavin DeGraw’s big brother, and some rap group from the ’90s. At the end of it all, as if to blot out the last remaining hope that the kind of music...
...From the 17th century onward, dairy farmers who wanted to supplement their income from milk - or who just needed a source of sweetener that was better and cheaper than sugar or molasses - drilled small holes in the trees during the brief weather window between winter and spring. (Sap typically runs out of maple trees on days when the temperature is around 40 degrees following a night when the mercury dropped below freezing.) The farmers called the maple tree stands "sugar bushes" and hung buckets under the drilled holes. Every day or two - depending on how fast the sap was running...