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...Roxanna cried. “Help!” In moments, the two women had landed back on the bed and were struggling furiously. Roxanna had succeeded in pulling off half of Felicity’s dress but had still not managed to free herself. When Frederick finally burst through the door, Felicity was straddling Roxanna. Her hands grasped at the poor girl’s throat. Roxanna writhed beneath her, shrieking.Momentarily stunned, Frederick finally recovered and inserted himself between the two women. “Enough!” he shouted. “Enough...
...National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that the U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, its first since the technology bubble burst in 2001. While a recession is typically defined as two consecutive quarters of contracting GDP, the NBER measures other factors, like employment and income, which delayed its results. This downturn is so far the third longest since the Great Depression...
Siddhant Singh ’11-’12 saw the roof of the Taj Mahal Hotel burst into flames from his YMCA hostel in Mumbai, just 100 yards away from the sites of the terrorist attacks last Wednesday. He spent the next two days under curfew, and did not leave his hostel. There, he ate two meals in two days because supplies were cut off and no food sellers were willing to come to the area. “We’ve been holed up in this building for a couple of days...
...This is really a determination of the turning point—and we don’t know when the next turning point may be.” The announcement marks the first official recession since 2001, when the economy took a hit after the dot-com bubble burst. Since the announcement did not come as a surprise—many economists have been warning of a recession for months—Poterba said he thought that the psychological consequences of the official declaration would be modest. Though there was a broad selloff in the stock market yesterday, including...
Last month a baby was shot dead in an inner suburb of East Timor's capital, Dili. His father, a policeman, had returned home from his shift and put his pistol atop a cupboard before lying down for a nap. A short time later, his frantic wife burst into the room, saying their six-year-old son had hold of the gun. Then a shot rang out. Rushing outside, the couple found their youngest child, a six-months-old boy, dead from a bullet wound...