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Three weeks after the stock market crash in 1929, Lawrence J. Fava jumped into the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. He was a middle-aged real estate dealer, and he was "frantic" about the losses he had suffered, according to his suicide note. He left the note on the Girard Avenue Bridge and then leapt into the dark, frigid water, according to a small item published that month in the New York Times. But Fava survived the fall, and he regretted his decision at once...
...Democratic Roosevelt preside over periods when capitalism was saved from itself,” Summers said. “This is our challenge today.” CAPITALISM IN DANGER?A panel moderated by Business School professor Michael E. Porter further explored the difficulties currently facing capitalism.Thierry J. Breton, the former French minister of economy, finance, and industry, emphasized the importance of understanding why there exists widespread discontent with capitalism.“We want a better life for ourselves and for our children. That is what capitalism is all about,” Breton said. “People...
...think it is important that everyone possible exercises the right to vote especially in such a critical election,” said volunteer Kia J. McLeod...
...Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
...patrol Garden Street or Cambridge Common, the location of recent robberies, because the jurisdiction for those areas belongs to the city of Cambridge. HUPD officers in those areas must be in transit, on foot or bike, Assistant Dean of the College Jay Ellison said. Currier House UC representative George J. J. Hayward ’11 said he would like Harvard and Cambridge to work together to get a police officer stationed along Garden Street near Cambridge Common. Officials said that improving lighting along Garden Street and in Cambridge Common is complicated by the issue of jurisdiction too, and Riley...