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...might this be so? As Belle explains, although Harvard men as a collective tend to lack the moxie to make a move, as soon as a Harvard woman hits on him, the man summons just enough energy to flee. In an inverted historical scenario, the men on this campus seem to be afraid of the women...
...pleasant kitsch. Jekyll & Hyde is a sluggish retelling of the famous horror tale with hair-flinging histrionics by star Robert Cuccioli; The Scarlet Pimpernel is so cheesily staged that the hero's main feat of derring-do is to pose as a plague victim so all the villains will flee in fear. Yet Wildhorn's music has enough muscle and melody to lift the material and the spirits. He can get our blood flowing with a rousing fight song (Into the Fire in Pimpernel) or brighten a brittle critique of social mores with an infectious melodic motif (Facade in Jekyll...
SEOUL: Investors continued to flee the South Korean ship Monday, which hardly bodes well for the country's new captain, president-elect Kim Dae Jung. But Kim, who likened his nation to "a man heaving his last breath" while meeting with visiting U.S. Treasury official David Lipton, is not letting the financial crisis scuttle his hopes for a kinder, gentler ? and unified ? Korea...
...Sachs, the director of the Harvard Institute for International Development. In Thailand the IMF plan required the government to close 58 financial institutions. When that became known, "the panic intensified," Sachs says. "Rather than restoring confidence, the IMF's intervention merely confirmed to investors that they were right to flee." Meanwhile, financial institutions that will be closed because they cannot satisfy strict standards of reserve capital will have their assets, mainly foolhardy real estate developments, auctioned off. But that massive sell-off could lead to a sharp fall in values that will affect the portfolio of even sound financial institutions...
...Fears that currency speculators would continue attacking the Hong Kong dollar, forcing the government to keep interest rates high to defend the currency, spurred investors to flee Hong Kong. Higher interest rates spell trouble for stock markets, because they slow down corporate growth...