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Stocks sent an unsettling message today, with the Dow Jones Industrials closing below the market low set back in November 2008. The Dow had dipped below the November low earlier in the week but finished the day higher. Thursday's close below the November low is to some a confirmation of the market's bearish trend, implying lower prices ahead. The Dow index, which finished the day at 7465.79, is down 10% over the last eight trading days, and is also at a new five-year low. (See the top 10 Dow Jones drops of all time...
...newspaper is coming from but where it's going. In the first nine months of 2008, the print version of the newspaper sold 290,000 copies a day on average, down 21,500 from the same period in 2007. Daily readership of the newspaper alone has dropped by close to half since 1997. Two years ago, in what seems a surprising lack of team spirit, the VG Nett folks strung a triumphal banner across their offices when online readership surpassed print readership: "Storre enn mor!" (Bigger than...
...Donations have been steady, and Boomerang’s has benefited from the overstock left by abysmal retail sales that have forced stores to close...
...growth at Harvard, which came at the expense of more leisurely and amorous pursuits: “I perceived a growing Curiosity, a Love of Books and a fondness for Study, which dissipated all my inclination for Sports, and even the Society of the Ladies.”Following closely in his father’s footsteps, John Quincy Adams, class of 1788, was similarly academically occupied during his time in Cambridge. In 1787 he was charged with the unhappy task of defending the practice of Law at Harvard’s Spring Exhibition, according to the Harvard Guide. Rutherford...
...become so sensitive to criticism of its role that it is jailing Egyptian anti-Israel protesters. Mauritania withdrew its ambassador to Israel. Jordan's King Abdullah summoned and rebuked the Israeli ambassador in the midst of the crisis. And Turkey - a non-Arab but predominantly Muslim state with close ties to Israel - withdrew its sponsorship of indirect peace talks between Israel and Syria...