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...transportation," says William Wheaton, an economist who heads research at the Center for Real Estate at M.I.T. Sept. 11 only accelerated the northern shift by the law firms and investment banks that for decades had anchored Wall Street. Immediately after 9/11, many financial firms, including Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, moved their employees to other locations around the city and to nearby Jersey City, N.J. Government officials persuaded Goldman Sachs to erect a building near ground zero, but at a cost of more than $1.6 billion in Liberty Bonds--low-cost, tax-exempt bonds issued by the city and state...
...nine, Klimkiewicz helped Harvard remain upbeat, and played a key role in its impressive 14-run comeback. In the decisive eighth inning, in which the Crimson went on to score five runs, the first baseman laced a long double to right-center to score sophomore Taylor Meehan and chase Dartmouth closer Kyle Zeis from the game. The floodgates opened after Zeis’s departure, as the Big Green’s Chris Lapointe could hardly silence the Crimson bats, allowing nine runs in only 1 1/3 innings. “Most of the season where we play our best...
...There he met Golden Mgedeza and Solomon Dipeere, both teenage naval cadets from Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. Ainslie nurtured their passion for sailing, and offered free lessons to other poor black and mixed-race kids in the surrounding townships. Burricks was one of the keenest. "We had to chase him away to get him to do some schoolwork during exams," Ainslie recalls. For Burricks, sailing provided an escape from the violence of township life. "You grow up thinking that's your way of living," he says. "But if you give kids something else to do, like sailing, most will...
...Iran threaten to stop pumping in a market that is already tight, they immediately bid up the price of contracts for future oil delivery. That cycle of fear isn't the only thing sending prices higher. Hedge funds, sniffing profits, are pouring money into oil and other commodities. The chase has added $10 to $15 to the price of a barrel of oil, say economists. Nor do the fundamentals of global oil offer much hope for lower prices over the long run. The growth in demand is exceeding the growth of supply...
...original classic. “The Birds,” as its title hints, is in fact, all about birds. Two Athenians, who are on the run because they owe money, flee to the birds in a desperate attempt to evade their debts. The ambitious Peisetaerus (Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08) and sidekick Euelpides (Fred C. Brown ’06) soon devise a bizarre plan to found a kingdom of birds under his rule and to take over Olympus, with the help of Tereus (Rory N. Kulz ’08) the human leader...