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Junior Colin West fell just short of a berth in the national championship match this weekend at the CSA National Individual Championships in Williamstown, MA. The star of the Harvard men’s squash team, who was the third seed in the Potter Cup, fell in five games to No. 2 seed Mauricio Sanchez of Princeton. After taking the first two games of the semifinal match, West faltered, and Sanchez walked away with the 3-9, 6-9, 9-1, 9-2, 9-4 victory. West advanced to semifinals with a pair of wins on Saturday over Trevor McGuinness...
...song in the freezing yard. Sweet and melodic, “Can You Tell” offers a less angst-ridden version of the Arcade Fire’s orchestral pop. By playing it in the snowy environment of the video, the string-heavy group proves Yo-Yo Ma ’76 wrong by showing that a cello can in fact be played outside in the cold. Maybe they should be hired for the next Inauguration. While it is unlikely that Ra Ra Riot will be playing on Capitol Hill in 2012, if they keep making songs as good...
...everyone is so convinced. The current improvement in data "is not big enough to warrant optimism" that a recovery is around the corner, says Eric Fishwick, head of economic research at brokerage CLSA in Hong Kong, who has maintained his 5.5% growth estimate for 2009. Jun Ma, an economist at Deutsche Bank, argues that China will experience a "double-dip" or "W-shaped" recovery. While the economy may show signs of life in the near term, he believes the current upturn will fizzle and the economy won't hit a final bottom until the first half...
...panic is felt by politicians and policymakers, who have slashed interest rates and hiked fiscal spending in an attempt to stimulate growth. In January, Taiwan's government doled out $2.6 billion in spending vouchers - or about $100 a person - to encourage consumers to splash out. The administration of President Ma Ying-jeou is also pushing a $14.7 billion program of infrastructure projects through the legislature, which includes funding for construction of better bridges and more subways. Singapore in January announced a $13.4 billion "Resilience Package" that will increase the country's budget deficit to a record level. Yet there...
...tigers are already heading in the right direction. Shortly after South Korean President Lee Myung Bak took office last year, he launched a program to improve the services sector by increasing financial assistance to targeted businesses and by reducing red tape. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is undertaking his own deregulation program, with a special focus on Taiwan's biggest trading partner, China. Ma believes that sectors of Taiwan's economy, such as tourism and finance, have been stunted by the island's political standoff with Beijing. (China considers Taiwan a renegade province.) Ma is pushing for an agreement with...