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...major investor in private businesses through its sovereign wealth fund. The Chinese banking system has clearly been developed by the government to encourage the creation of private enterprise. Parts of the financial and commercial structure of China are still owned by the state, but the government's once-famous totalitarian grip on the economy appears to be loosening some each year...
...what can be called one of the most blatantly ironic financial events in recent memory, the Everything’s Jake store at 36 JFK Street in the Garage—purveyors of the plucky t-shirt brand famous for the “Life is good” slogan—closed its doors last Sunday. According to store owner Glen Tompkins, the economy simply “knocked us out.” But silver lining isn’t hard to find for Tompkins, who has been surrounded by the brand’s optimistic stick figures...
...start here at the John Harvard statue. Now, it is a famous Harvard undergraduate tradition to pee on the statue. I say, why stop there? Hell, Christian B. Flow ’10 has been looking for a hole in this thing for years. They call this the statue of Harvard’s three lies. Can anyone name them?—Hey, pay attention! No need to look at the chaches in the straw hats, shouting and making bad jokes. They think they’re earning vacations in the Caribbean, but they’re really just...
...your right, you can see William James Hall, site of the famous Registrarian Monkey Revolt. Proclaiming himself Maestro de Los Monos, Titan of the Tamarins, Oligarch of the Orangutans, Champion of the Chimps, Liberator of the Lemurs, First Secretary of the Democratic Worker Monkeys Popular Banana Front, and Guardian of the CUE, Registrar Barry S. Kane marched on the building and stabbed several security guards with a letter opener, which was marked with the monogram “DGF.” He then released all of the monkeys and led them, as the Pied Piper of Primates, into University...
...continue down Oxford Street, you will see two of Harvard’s most famous landmarks. Farthest away, you will find Northwest Labs, the inspiration for “2001: A Space Odyssey.” On the first Tuesday after the second Monday after the lunar equinox, the massive basement becomes an underground roller derby arena and home of human sacrifice...