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...Michigan game, which wasn't easy. Since the TV blocked the shelves that held my cable box, I had to wedge my arm between the LaserVue and the entertainment center to get the remote to work. But once we had the game on, it was worth the slight bruising: the colors were sensational and bright; the players, larger than life. I had lugged a pair of speakers up from the basement and connected them to my sound system for the full surround-sound effect, so when the band struck up the Michigan fight song ("Hail! to the victors valiant/ Hail...
...including Dubai and Singapore. And since financial services are such an important part of the U.S. economy, accounting for a massive 15% of New York's alone, any diminishing of its status as a financial center will have big repercussions on jobs. The dollar too may lose its long-held status as the currency of choice for central bankers everywhere. Snower of the Kiel Institute believes that in the future, "this will be seen as a historic period in which the U.S. will give up some of its reserve-currency role." Asian and Middle Eastern nations that currently hold...
...responded, smiling. “Oh, Sandrine’s. Cute. I think Goldman’s hosting a dinner there Thursday night.” Livingstone twiddled her thumb over her electronic calendar to verify, and nodded her head to indicate that the dinner would indeed be held Thursday night. “Well, anyways. You have a boyfriend. Good for you,” she added, beginning to pant as the elliptical ascended to level 6. “I just have [pant] absolutely no [pant] time for that sort of thing, you know? [pant] A relationship...
...traveling wide of the goal. However, the ball deflected off of a Crimson defender who was standing in front of the right post, and it trickled past Stone to cut the lead to one. The late surge was too little, too late for the Huskies, as Harvard held on in the waning moments and won its third straight game. “We just have to keep on rolling,” Stone said. “We have to keep our focus on each game as it comes.” —Staff writer Timothy J. Walsh...
...never gone to Tenebrae before I came to Harvard three years ago. It is a somber service held during the week before Easter—three hours of melancholy psalmody, chanted in a foreign tongue and, at the end when the final candle on the hearse is extinguished, enveloped in complete darkness. Reverent and sublime, indeed, but a dirge first and foremost—a lament for the present day of woe and a longing for a better time since passed...