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...comparison, wrangling a few politically terrified congressmen should have been child's play. The bill tracks the basics of what he asked for over a week ago. He gets $700 billion, albeit in pieces over time, and he gets to decide exactly how he wants to purge the market of the bad loans that are paralyzing the financial system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bailout Deal: Will It Fly in Congress? | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

...normally attribute to a Harvard defense.”And as Friday’s game showed, those statistics certainly will not be attributed to the 2008 Harvard defense. The Crimson held Holy Cross preseason All-American quarterback Dominic Randolph to just 239 yards and one touchdown, paling in comparison to last year’s 339 yards and four touchdowns.And with Brown coming up tomorrow, the secondary will again be tested by quarterback Michael Dougherty, who led the Ivy League in completions, completion percentage, passing yards, and touchdown passes last season.“You know, I think...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young Secondary Tested Early | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

...endowment now totals $10.1 billion. The largest higher educational endowment to announce a loss so far, the University of Pennsylvania, dropped 3.9 percent on the year. But the Philadelphia school still bested the negative 4.4 percent median return of 165 peer institutions, as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service. While these returns pale in comparison to the consistent double-digit returns posted by the wealthiest university endowments over the past few years, they remain robust in light of the worst financial downturn in decades—one that has prompted a U.S. government plan to purchase...

Author: By Wyatt P. Gleichauf and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Elite Endowments Weather Markets | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...findings, published last Wednesday on the Web site of the British Medical Journal, also show that the risk reduction from making any single healthy lifestyle choice pales in comparison to the benefits from following a combination of factors...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists: Healthy Habits Good for You | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...MySpace; the rest of my family and all of my friends are on Facebook. It remains to be seen whether MyMusic will be enough to get them to migrate. Also, Rhapsody streams music to my home music system, Sonos, which wirelessly connects to speakers throughout my house. By comparison, the free portion of MySpace Music streams tunes only to the computer at this point. So I'll keep subscribing to Rhapsody, but I'm guessing its days - in my household, anyway - are numbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MySpace Launches a Free-Music Revolution | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

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