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...market is set up between alleys surrounding decrepit apartment buildings. Elderly Vietnamese women sit frying pancakes while others skin fresh fish. Cuts of meat hang in front of tailors mending pants and enormous bags of rice prop up the occasional war victim without legs. It was here, in 1969, where my mom was sewing and selling dresses with one of her sisters. Amidst cackling chickens and radio reports about the war, my father stumbled into the market. Ma must have been beautiful to attract his attention. After all, he came looking for a wedding dress for his fianc?...
...initiate into their club for each member they had lost—just as they have been doing for more than 350 years. We can hope the new corporation members will be more ethical than those they are replacing, but hope is a slim hook on which to hang the $17 billion that is left in the Harvard endowment. The key question for the Harvard community to consider now is how we can make sure the tremendous resources with which we have been endowed are never again used by insiders to help out their political friends...
...Socially, when I see that reaction it makes me a little more distrustful of people. I would think twice before dating a girl who seemed really into the fact that I went to Harvard, for obvious reasons. But if you just want to have a good time, hang out with a bunch of people, get them to remember you, it definitely...
...first time in a long, long time that the Harvard defense had failed to hang on to a fourth-quarter lead, especially one of that size. It wasn’t the Ivy title defense of a year ago by any stretch of the imagination...
...muck, the concern now is that other listed private Chinese companies will be splattered. A UBS Warburg index of 20 of these so-called "private chips" has fallen 10% since it was inaugurated in January 2001. That's far less than the 45% fall of Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index. But p-chips plunged three percentage points since the Yang scandal broke. Because of the lack of transparency and secrecy among Mainland companies, "it is quite difficult to sort out which are the reliable ones and which are the crooks," says Willis Ting, executive director of Tai Fook...