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SETTING SUN FOR JAPANESE STOCKS Japan's economy purportedly grew fastest of all the industrial countries last year, had no inflation and near zero interest rates. Ideal ingredients for a booming stock market. Yet Japan's stock market is rolling like a snowball down Mount Fuji. The Nikkei 225 index dropped more than 10% so far this year, to 17689,and some 55% off its peak of 38915, reached...
...Huge companies have been beloved." In that environment, fund managers with even small doses of non-index stocks don't have much chance of beating the indexes. But, Lynch notes, active fund managers have sparkled at times, as in 1991-93, when the postrecession economy was lifting small stocks fastest. In 1991 the average fund rose 37%, vs. 30% for the S&P 500, and 60% of funds beat the benchmark...
Freshman Tim Martin broke two of the Virginia pool records in a single race. His 1,000 meter split in the 1,650m freestyle was the fastest 1,000m the pool had ever seen, in any race including the 1,000m freestyle. This fast start propelled him to a new record in the 1,650m which in addition to being the fastest time recorded in the country this year qualified Martin for NCAAs...
...Crimson 4x100 free style relay performed well enough to claim a new Harvard record. Junior Matt Cornue had the fastest split with a time of 44.2 seconds...
Cornue also provided Harvard with its fastest split in the 4x50m freestyle relay. His time of 19.7 seconds was the fastest split of the meet...