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...party is to politics what Gosplan, the state central planning agency, is to the economy. For some time enterprising Georgians have been allowed to fly to Moscow in the dead of winter to sell their flowers at whatever prices they can get in the underground stations of the Metro. Latter-day kulaks sell in private stalls the vegetables they raise on private plots. Taxi drivers, restaurateurs and publishers are making money in microenclaves of capitalism called cooperatives. Even the state has got in on the act, auctioning off foreign currencies for rubles to the highest bidders. But in all these...
...conferences and conventions have been canceled. Unless the strike is settled soon, travel industry experts say that three-fourths of Australia's large hotel chains will be forced to shut down. In a letter to Prime Minister Bob Hawke earlier this month, John McEvoy, managing director of the Metro Inns Hotel Group, predicted the imminent "collapse of thousands of businesses and jobs...
...Saturday, Harvard faced Northeastern, the only team to beat the Crimson in Metro League action this year...
First of all, it should been called the Wall Street Forum. All those pinstripes and ties in one building can give a guy a headache. Could this be the only thing that Harvard prepares you for? A Metro North commuter ride into New York, a 9-to-5 job in lower Manhattan and two tickets to the theatre? Say it ain't so, Derek...
After a mid-week Metro League win over Amherst, 40-4, the Harvard men's rugby club lost to its toughest opponent Saturday, as the East took on the West in front of 100 spectators at Soldiers Field. The Crimson was pummelled, 45-9, by Cal-Berkeley, leaving Harvard 7-3 overall and 4-1 in the league as it heads into the New England Championships this weekend...