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...walls of Memorial Church, built in 1931 to commemorate Harvard's fallen soldiers in the "Great War," are chiseled the names of over 550 students from the College who had sacrificed their lives in World...
...while Harvard mourned her fallen sons, it was the ones who made it back, and an influx of G.I. Bill veterans, who were to permanently alter the fabric of undergraduate life--from housing and classes to the social life and topics of debate on campus...
...paying in flesh--the fear side. Amid unprecedented and treacherous trading volatility, the NASDAQ has fallen nearly 40% in the past six weeks and shredded the nest eggs of untold numbers of latecomers. That's why it's best to have both bulls and bears striking a balance--to keep stocks tethered to reality. Lose that equilibrium, and you get boom, bust, pain...
Ironically, the Fed's get-tough stance came just hours after a Commerce Department report showed that the "core" rate of inflation (the Consumer Price Index with volatile food and energy prices omitted) had fallen to an annual rate of 2.4% in April, down from 4.8% in March. That led Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, to denounce the FOMC increase as "clearly excessive" at a time when "accelerating inflation is not apparent." If this continues, says Harkin, "our economy is going to bleed to death." In other words, the Democrats need a slowing economy in an election year like...
That day is still a way off, at least in the U.S. America introduced the world to handheld wireless when it outfitted GIs with walkie-talkies during World War II. But in the years since, the country has fallen woefully behind the rest of the world. The main reason we're lagging is that in the early 1990s Europe and Asia adopted a common digital standard called Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) that lets overseas cell-phone users call seamlessly among 120 countries, from Sweden to Singapore. The U.S., by contrast, had several competing standards--slowing adoption of wireless...