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...seventh day, the market rested. After five days of tumult that added up to the worst week in stock-market history, and a sixth day that saw the biggest point gain ever, the Dow Jones industrial average on Tuesday finished down 76.6 points, or 0.8%, an extremely mild loss considering the rollercoaster ride of recent days. The S&P 500, a broader measure of the stock market, finished down 0.5%, and the NASDAQ lost...
Exhibit A in the possible return to normalcy was the 3.5% loss in the tech-heavy NASDAQ, compared to the much smaller drop in the Dow and S&P. The indexes had been moving pretty much in tandem, but broke their lockstep on Tuesday on concerns about slower growth at Google, Intel's after-the-bell third-quarter earnings report, and how much companies will be investing in technology next year. Though a sharp drop, it was a hopeful sign that investors may have returned to caring about stocks' fundamentals and have left the sphere of fear that had been...
...start. Harvard managed to get to Ford twice against 53 pass attempts, the first two sacks Cornell has surrendered on the season. Both sacks came on a second-quarter drive for the Big Red, where captain Matt Curtis dragged down Ford for a seven-yard loss on first down and senior end Peter Ajayi got to him again for an eight-yard loss on third down. “They do a good job protecting and a really good job hanging onto the football,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said. “We hoped and thought we?...
...whole season, senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti was forced to look to new faces and new plays to get the job done offensively against a solid Cornell defense—the Big Red entered Saturday’s matchup leading the league and second in the nation in tackles for loss and was limiting rushing attacks to 37 yards per game. Pizzotti found early help from freshman Adam Chrissis who made his catches count, taking his first collegiate grab—a screen pass on a Big Red blitz—67 yards to the end zone for the first score...
...played some of our best water polo of the year,” Farrar said. “We came out and jumped on them. Guys were flying around, playing great team defense. But the lapse in the fourth proved decisive.”Although the two-goal loss represented an improvement over a 15-10 defeat at the hands of the Gaels in September, some Crimson competitors showed concern at the team’s lack of consistent execution.“I thought we were really moving forward as a team, but this weekend we really took...