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Olympic archery gold medalist Kim Kyung Wook knows how demanding her sport can be. But nothing had prepared her for a training session this summer, which had little to do with bows and arrows. In August, coaches forced the nation's top male and female archers to attend a four-day Navy commando training camp at a military base in southwest Korea. Kim easily dealt with hiking along an open sewage ditch, sprinting with a car tire strapped to her back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded...
...four-day blood drive, which runs through Friday, focuses on Harvard College, and is located in the basement of St. Paul’s Church...
...coward?s panic either. The losses stabilized by late morning and actually bounced a bit off their lows before slipping again in later afternoon and then bouncing again. The final tally: The Dow down 677 points, the NASDAQ down 115 - and it did seem as if the involuntary four-day layoff didn't hurt. The machinery worked, the connections connected, volume hit a record on the NYSE and it still wasn?t anything the hastily reconstructed infrastructure couldn?t handle. A promised halt to trading if the Dow dropped 1000 points did not materialize...
Plans are in the works to hold a four-day, on-campus blood drive during the last week of September at St. Paul’s Church, behind Adams House. The drive is being planned in coordination with the American Red Cross, Rosenthal said...
...last two-day close on Wall Street was following the JFK assassination; the last time longer than that was the four-day "bank holiday" in panicked 1930 and another, longer stretch during WWI. At about the time Wall Street?s closing bell would normally have rung Wednesday, exchange officials announced that some trading would resume Thursday, but that the equities markets would be open as early as Friday...