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...appetite for dollars. The International Monetary Fund announced on Nov. 2 it was selling 200 metric tons of gold to India's central bank for $6.7 billion. News of the purchase sent gold prices to an all-time high. The move was widely seen as part of an effort by central banks around the world to diversify their extensive U.S. dollar holdings. Steven Englander, chief U.S. currency strategist at Barclays Capital in New York City, figures that in the second quarter, dollars accounted for only 37% of new reserves accumulated by central banks worldwide. That's the lowest proportion...
...output is erratic: “11th Dimension” and “Left and Right in the Dark” stand among his finest work, while the rest of “Phrazes” suffers from a lack of creative inspiration. Casablancas’ solo effort proves that the Strokes truly were greater than the sum of their parts. For now, as the Strokes record their next album, “Phrazes” is a decent placefiller, but certainly not an enduring, compelling masterpiece in its own right...
While the Crimson men say they treat each game with equal importance, Saturday’s face-off with a long-time nemesis will demand a distinct effort from all fronts. Harvard defenseman will look to control dangerous attackers Colin Greening and Riley Nash, who was voted preseason All-ECAC. Cornell’s Ben Scrivens, among the nation’s best goaltenders, is also bound to be a strong force between the pipes...
...pronged. First, we have been educating the Harvard community about flu prevention by advising good hand washing, covering one’s cough, and social distancing from sick individuals. Second, this fall we implemented a large-scale immunization program offering 17,000 vaccines against the seasonal flu. Through this effort, we were able to inoculate over a third of the undergraduate community. Finally, we have been advising self-isolation for individuals diagnosed with ILI. About 46 percent of students diagnosed with ILI were sent back to their single rooms with meals provided to their rooms by HUDS. Another 42 percent...
...Obama on Nov. 2 called to congratulate Karzai but cautioned the Afghan President that "this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security," Obama told journalists afterward...