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...Post and a bestselling anthology, Mommy Wars, which took on the feminine work- life balance myth by embracing the fact that most women's jobs and lives will never be perfect. But her successful present belies a haunting past: In her new memoir, Crazy Love, Steiner reveals how she fell in love with and married a man who beat her regularly and nearly killed her. TIME spoke to Steiner about why she decided to write about the most painful period in her life, what lessons she hopes readers can draw from her experience and why she thinks people should defend...
...that was before the bottom fell out from nearly every asset class. While some of the instruments, such as credit default swaps, may have hedged against the downturn, other derivative holdings have cost the University dearly. Harvard’s investments in interest-rate swaps, one class of derivative that may be used by both HMC and the University budget office to hedge against interests rate changes on variable-rate debt, would have cost $571 million to terminate as of Oct. 2008, according to a credit rating report from financial rating company Standard and Poor?...
...COLUMBIA 8, HARVARD 6After the Crimson defense allowed the Lions to climb back from a 3-1 deficit and force a tie with run-scoring errors in the fourth and fifth innings in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, Harvard’s pitching fell apart in the eighth, giving Columbia all it needed to complete its sweep.Freshman starter Conner Hulse—who had given up just one earned run in his first seven innings of work—succumbed to fatigue in the eighth frame. Following a single and wild pitch, cleanup hitter Dean Forthun...
...average price of a hotel room fell 12% last year globally, according to the latest Hotels.com Hotel Price Index, but we've found deals that drop rates even further...
...investors got cold feet on Friday, and sent the Dow down 1.87%. The broader S&P 500 index fell 2.03%, with 84% of its stocks moving lower. One bit of good news: Friday's decline occurred on relatively light trading volume, and was not surprising given that stocks had risen so far in a short time. Yet a decline is still a decline, and the sharper sell off in financial stocks, which were down 3.4% on Friday, raises questions about the many challenges the industry - and the broader market - still face...