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...it’s easier for us to go while juggling midterms and papers.”A chicken-wing eating event has been planned for this weekend, though there are usually no special events for football games other than Harvard-Yale, according to Marks.One Yale alum, Alison Bloom-Feshbach ’06, said that most of her friends would be attending this weekend’s Princeton game instead of The Game next weekend, and that many of Yale’s societies are having tailgates then instead of at Harvard.Marks said that the Yale College Masters?...
...increases. In Hungary the average is 65 for men and 74 for women, in contrast to 67.3 and 75 in 1975 and to 73.4 and 81.8 for French men and women today. Death rates in Russia have soared 30% since 1989, with men bearing the brunt, says demographer Murray Feshbach of Georgetown University. By his estimate, life expectancy for Russian men has fallen to 59, about the same as in Pakistan...
...devastating 1957 nuclear- waste explosion and subsequent dumping of contaminants near Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow, is now thought to have released pollution totaling 1.2 billion curies, a unit measure of contamination. That compares with about 3 million curies from the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Says Murray Feshbach, co-author of Ecocide in the USSR: "The new evidence of widespread nuclear pollution is so incredible, it's hard to believe...
...stock market the practice of "shorting" involves borrowing shares of publicly traded companies in the hope that the price will go down before the stocks must be bought on the market and returned to the lender. The Feshbach brothers of Palo Alto, Calif. - Kurt, Joseph and Matthew - have become the leading short sellers in the U.S., with more than $500 million under management. The Feshbachs command a staff of about 60 employees and claim to have earned better returns than the Dow Jones industrial average for most of the 1980s. And, they say, they owe it all to the teachings...
...Feshbachs also embrace the church's tactics; the brothers are the terrors of the stock exchanges. In congressional hearings in 1989, the heads of several companies claimed that Feshbach operatives have spread false information to government agencies and posed in various guises - such as a Securities and Exchange Commission official - in an effort to discredit their companies and drive the stocks down. Michael Russell, who ran a chain of business journals, testified that a Feshbach employee called his bankers and interfered with his loans. Sometimes the Feshbachs send private detectives to dig up dirt on firms, which is then shared...