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Harvard quickly recovered, however, and neither team really had a break-away run or a double-digit lead. At halftime, the score was tied...
...single-digit a.m. study breaks with double cheeseburgers and greasy french fires may not yet be extinct in Harvard Square...
...Hong Kong is one of the more stable denizens of a region where the once grand gown of the Asian Miracle is weekly growing more frayed and tattered. From Seoul to Bangkok, economies that earlier made annual double-digit growth look easy are now strangling on a lethal brew of skyrocketing interest rates, current-account deficits, shrinking budgets and rapid flight of the foreign loans and capital that in many countries underwrote the miracle. "Right now my feeling is one of despair," says a Jakarta stockbroker who has watched the Indonesian stock market drop 33% since July. (It was down...
...they escaped from the Emperor's New Year haiku ("the Southern Slope of Deer" is the meaning of one), all of which is doubly embarrassing since, as everyone knows, the Japanese don't have street addresses. And to call my office from this apartment involves a seven-digit access number, a 14-digit personal code and then another 14 digits. The days when I used to laugh at the Orwellian sterility of North Korean film names (The Report of No. 36, for example) seem remote indeed. And the days when New York City telephone numbers were humanized by letters--"Call...
...suppose I first noticed this profusion when first I inscribed a six-digit post-office box number into my book, at almost exactly the same time as ZIP codes (which arrived on our shores only in 1963, to cries of "governmental harassment" from Hunter S. Thompson) began more insistently including four extra digits and a dash. Suddenly, the 213 area code for Los Angeles had sprouted seven alternatives, and French phone numbers were 10 digits long, and my friends were stockpiling spouses' names upon their own. Here in Japan, my three-digit postal code spawned two extra digits, and even...