Word: fiftieth
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...equity market was already “decidedly cautious to negative” that summer.But despite these hedging strategies, financial markets continued to deteriorate through the summer and ultimately imploded that fall. On one mid-September Sunday evening, Mendillo went out to dinner with her husband to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, only to return home to multiple messages from her HMC team notifying her that they were formulating contingency plans for Lehman Brothers’ collapse—the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history and what many investors see as a seminal event in the financial crisis.Stephen Blyth...
...During the past half century, Cuba has had varied and complex experiences. The National Assembly’s December 2008 plenary session, on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the current political regime, brought together much of the good and the bad of these decades, as well as the silly and the imprudent. Yet it is evident that Cuba’s new president is prepared to take on some statesmanlike, albeit unpopular, decisions for the sake of sounder governance. What other courageous steps might he be willing to undertake...
...currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday, Chinua Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth anniversary.The novel was one of the first major works to bring Western readers the experience of an African man under colonial rule from an African perspective. It tells the story of the unsympathetic protagonist, Okonkwo, a volatile patriarch who attempts to reassert his status and masculinity against a tide...
...nose. Two tufts of snowy-white hair peek from beneath his characteristic red felt hat. He speaks with a soft, gravelly cadence, but carries himself with the gravitas befitting his stature. Chinua Achebe stands as perhaps the most recognizable and lauded African author of modern times. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, his premier novel, “Things Fall Apart,” has sold over 8 million copies and been translated into 50 languages. He holds more than 30 honorary degrees, including one bearing the signature of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine. He visited Harvard this past...
Several students in the crowded expressed excitement at getting to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of “Things Fall Apart” with the lauded writer himself...