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...together,” senior guard Drew Housman said. “And for that four- or five-minute stretch, we had great intensity, especially on the defensive end. It’s just that we weren’t able to sustain that burst. As Harvard’s explosion of energy hit its crescendo, Cornell, too, fell back on its star player. But that’s where the trend ceased to continue.The reigning Ivy League player of the year, junior guard Louis Dale, finally ended Harvard’s run with a quick layup. Dale then grabbed...
...Obama’s aides, the nightmare is a depression like the one that struck Japan in the 1990s, and a slow government response is the bogeyman. Geithner and National Economic Council Chairman Larry Summers were Clinton officials when a real-estate bubble in Japan burst, dragging the country into a decade-long slump. Alarmed by the downfall, they watched Tokyo gradually approve stimulus spending and scatter funding across projects—to no avail...
...certainly an unobjectionable song, but as an album starter, it falls a bit short. Rather than moving in its gentle simplicity, the song feels generic and a bit boring, crawling rather than coasting slowly along. Perhaps more than anything, it feels like Auerbach, whose love of blues rock almost burst from his past albums, simply isn’t excited by the slower paced song. The album soon picks up with “I Want You More,” as Auerbach both moves into more familiar territory and expands his sound in interesting ways. With his guitar growling...
...With a burst of firecrackers and a platter of fried rangoons, Harvard Square rang in the Year of the Ox yesterday. A group of about 50 people—accompanied by two multi-colored lions who performed a traditional lion dance—paraded from Winthrop Park on JFK St. to the Hong Kong Restaurant on Mass. Ave. The advent of the Chinese lunar calendar came on Jan. 26, but the celebration typically continues for about a week. The event was organized by the Hong Kong Restaurant and the Harvard Square Business Association. After the procession, families piled into...
When Bernard Madoff's huge Ponzi scheme burst, the New York Post reported, in its typical cut-to-the-jugular style, that suicide hotlines were lighting up in Greenwich, Connecticut, home to many of the financial high-rollers snared by the alleged $50 billion scam. But the deadly fallout from it was no joking matter. Only a couple of weeks after Madoff's mischief was revealed, French financier Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet killed himself in his New York City office, apparently distraught by his having lost more than a billion of his clients' (and his own family...