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...community. The headlines are grim. The U.S. housing slump is worsening. Banking giants such as Merrill Lynch and Citigroup are posting record losses. The U.S. dollar is getting pounded by the British pound - and virtually every other currency. Oil has run up as high as $98 per bbl., and gold - the traditional doomsday investment - has topped $800, its highest level since the early 1980s...
...Malaysia's Trade and Consumer-Affairs Ministry recently led 100 security agents on a morning raid through a downtown shopping mall, seizing illegal music, video and computer-software CDs. At one retail booth, a television monitor was advertising bootlegged wares. "Take the TV," he ordered, pointing with his gold-tipped walking stick. "We will be back day after day until they shut down forever...
...their children (the "currency"). But the "lower orders"--that is, most 19th century Australians--fiercely resented the pretensions of the nobs and were well aware that in a pioneer environment Lady Luck was a more powerful queen than Victoria Regina. This was rammed home after the discovery of gold in Ballarat in 1851, just after the California gold rush. "All the aristocratic feelings and associations of [England]," wrote John Sherer, an observer of the gold rush in 1853, "are at once annihilated...It is not what you were, but what you are, that is the criterion...
...Harvard women’s hockey team’s Sarah Vaillancourt helped Team Canada to a gold medal against Team USA at this weekend’s Four Nations Cup in Leksand, Sweden. The Canadians posted a 2-0 victory over a U.S. Women’s Select Team that included current Harvard tri-captain Caitlin Cahow and former co-captain Julie Chu ‘06-’07. The U.S. outshot Canada, 12-8, in the opening frame but found itself in the hole when former Crimson captain Jennifer Botterill...
...suspension comes as a result of Scherf’s refusal to take a drug test after the Gold Coast Marathon in Brisbane, Australia on July 1, a race in which she finished second...