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Faced with ubiquitous signs of global economic meltdown, investors sold stocks in force on Tuesday, dragging the broad market indexes down near the lows reached last November. The Standard & Poor's 500 index, weighed down by financials, fell 4.56%, while the Dow Industrials sank 3.8%, falling to within a fraction of its November 2008 low. Among the hardest hit sectors were bank stocks, down 10%, oil service stocks, down 8.2%, and semiconductor stocks, which fell 6.7%. Gold Mining was among the rare winners Tuesday, with the industry group rising 2.5%. (See pictures of the top 10 scared traders...
...head coach Dave Fish said. “It’s a good attitude for tennis. His attitude has been improving every week.”Harvard suffered an early setback as it lost the doubles point. At No. 2, junior Michael Hayes and Felton fell, 8-4, while the No. 1 partnership of senior Sasha Ermakov and sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans lost, 8-6, to Bogdan Borta and Mihai Nichifor. The Crimson quickly rebounded by taking the first three singles matches to lead, 3-1. Ermakov equalized by upstaging Borta...
...opponents in American International College, Brown and Wagner. On Friday night, Harvard recorded a decisive victory over AIC, winning eight of nine matches and outscoring the Yellow Jackets, 34-3. The following afternoon, Harvard wrestled well against Brown, winning five of eight matches. But despite strong performances the Crimson fell to the Bears 25-16, largely due to two forfeits. Only a few hours after wrestling Brown on Saturday afternoon, the Harvard wrestlers rallied against Wagner, defeating the Seahawks, 33-10, and winning six of nine matches contested.Harvard coach Jay Weiss said that the weekend had ups and downs...
...show to emphasize the minimalist nature of Kylián’s choreography. A dancer, concealed behind another until this moment, shifted to the right quickly and almost imperceptibility, revealing that there are in fact two. Without regard for a definitive start or end, the curtain then fell, rising again as “No More Play” continued. “Black and White” revels in such play between the evident and the hidden, the proper and the audaciously inappropriate. It is a dark game that questions the relationships we have with others and illuminates...
...Mooney. “Even to the last moment, people were calling all morning long for reservations.” Christy Leveroni, dining room manager at Chez Henri, a French-Cuban restaurant close to the Quad, recalled business was the same as the last time Valentine’s fell on a Saturday, back in 2004. Though she recounted horror stories from other struggling eateries, Leveroni said Chez Henri has been “cushioned,” for the most part. “[Diners are] still coming in,” she said...