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...ending a Yale 16-game winning streak and achieving the perfect 8-0-1 season. 1974: Milton Holt ’75 makes a 95 yard touchdown in final five minutes to win 21-16. 1975: Harvard finally wins its first Ivy championship, thanks to Michael J. Lynch ’77 who kicked a 26 yard field goal in the final seconds to pull off a 10-7 win. 1982: MIT students exploded a black weather balloon, spraying talcum powder over the field (Harvard still won, 45-7). 1983: The 100th official anniversary of the Game sees a Crimson...
...Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “The guys knew that whether they were getting first place or fifth place, every point was going to be important.”Harvard’s all-around performance got off to a great start, with co-captain Eric Lynch winning the day’s second event, the 1000-yard freestyle, finishing in 9:18.72. Junior Alex Meyer and sophomore Blake Lewkowitz were close behind, finishing second and third with 9:27.33 and 9:30.08, respectively. “It’s huge always to start off the meet...
...rang Slater a few days later from London, where he was head of foreign exchange for investment bank Merrill Lynch. It would be a few years before Key could extricate himself from the world of finance, and he entered Parliament in 2002; he became the party's leader four years later. And on Nov. 8, the political career launched by that call culminated in a resounding election victory for Key and National, ending nine years of Labour rule under Helen Clark. On the night, hundreds of supporters gathered outside Key's mansion in the affluent Auckland suburb of Parnell. "That...
...report from Merrill Lynch suggests just how strong a role these macro forces have been playing - and how it's not over yet. Merrill's research shows that stocks within industry groups (like retailing, pharmaceuticals, consumer durables, media and banks) have been moving in lockstep much more so than they have at any other point in at least 13 years. Through the end of October, the correlation of weekly returns for stocks in the same industry was 59%, compared to 42% last year and 46% in 2001, the previous high during the time period studied...
...reveals that while stocks are moving with their industry groups, industry groups are diverging from one another. Data that indicate an increase in inflation, for example, may shock an entire industry, but if that industry is food, stocks go down, and if it's energy, they go up. Merrill Lynch's quantitative strategy group runs paper portfolios based on different stock-picking methodologies, and the industry-selection model has trounced all the others over the past ten months. ("Trounced" meaning lost a lot less.) While the industry-rotation portfolio is down 22%, those strategies that tease out particular growth...