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...spasms of equally frenzied buying. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index lost nearly a quarter of its value between Oct. 1 and Oct. 27, including an epic 700-point drop on Oct. 15. The carnage was followed on Oct. 28 by a 900-point rise, the second largest points gain on record...
When the Crimson tallied another penalty in the final two minutes of the game, the Engineers sought to tie things up and pulled their goalie to gain an even bigger man-advantage. But Harvard’s defense held strong, and RPI’s plan backfired in the end, as Michaud carried the puck up to the blue line before launching a shot into the empty net, sealing the Crimson’s victory...
...action HMC may be taking to sell investments it has with them. Private equity has traditionally been one of the best-performing asset classes for Harvard’s endowment, earning an annualized return of 28.5 percent over the past 10 years and posting a 9.3 percent gain in fiscal year 2008, beating the endowment’s overall return of 8.6 percent. Private equity investments have taken a hit from current economic distress that has crippled investors’ access to capital—a key driver of gains in that sector. Harvard would not be alone...
...election cycle, Obama won 33% of the white Evangelical vote, a 12-point shift from 2004. The campaign's Evangelical outreach coordinator spent the last weeks of the race in tightly-contested Indiana, with impressive results - 30% of the state's white Evangelicals voted for Obama (a 14-point gain), and the Democrat split the Catholic vote with McCain (a 13-point gain...
...Omar and Zaina have set their sights further to the south, and few experts can figure out why. "It's not as though Spain is an especially easy country in which to gain asylum," says Alfredo Abad, director of the Spanish Refugee Aid Commission. "We have some of the lowest acceptance rates in Europe." In fact, only 570 of the 7,664 who sought asylum in 2007 were granted, a drop in acceptance, says Abad, of 58% compared to the previous year...