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...investors dumped stocks across the region in the wake of Wall Street's worst decline in seven years. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock market index closed down nearly 5%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 5.4%, and Seoul's KOSPI index dropped 6.1%. In Taiwan, where the main index slumped 4.9%, the government encouraged banks and state funds to buy shares to support the market...
...Core office should have worked and should continue to work to make sure a significant number of Core offerings remain available during the transition. Many of the departmental courses are beyond the reach of the typical Core consumer who is not likely well-versed in the subject. The main pivot behind the Core Curriculum, as outlined by University President A. Lawrence Lowell was that“every educated person should know a little of everything and something well. Similarly, the goal of General Education is for us students to “understand [our]selves as products of?...
...Cairo. I was lifted up on people’s shoulders, given flags to raise and wave in the air, danced with people like they were family. All because of one stupid sport that nobody really likes.I jumped in the back of a truck and road along a main city block bordering the Nile, waving my hands in the air while trying to hold on for dear life. My friend Jordan and I were a commodity, yes, two Americans somehow in Egypt, somehow celebrating with them on this hallowed day.But we were nonetheless—and with the little Arabic...
...main worry of Asian investors isn't so much the stability of Asia's own financial system. For the most part, Asian banks and securities firms have not suffered the mortgage and property losses of their U.S. counterparts. Asia's financial institutions have become more conservative in recent years, having learned their lessons from past speculative investments in assets such as office blocks and shopping malls during the Asian financial crisis that began...
...masterful shots to take the set and fought through Chijoff-Evans most spirited efforts to win the third 7-5. “The weekend’s play was very encouraging,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “The main thing we’ve seen is that these teams are just stronger, able to go longer. We played great matches with them, they’ve just done it longer than we have.” Fish added that his players saw the sort of intensity they will have...