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...Wall Street's Newfound Virtue In February 2000, one of the street's most powerful executives petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow his firm and other investment banks to raise their levels of leverage. He wanted the commission to alter something called the net-capital rule, which he said was "the single most important factor in driving significant parts of our business offshore...
...poor." Not anymore: prices have risen as much as 1,000%, and top works can command up to $200,000. Ayyam Gallery is expanding to Dubai and Beirut and has an exhibition in New York City. Many buyers aren't megarich Saudi oil princes but wealthy Syrians with newfound avant-garde tastes and an eagerness to promote their culture. "People like to say our culture is thousands of years old, but as a country, we're just about 50 years old," says Samawi. "We've had our trials and errors. Now we're starting to get it right...
...stung from rejection, and the other was ashamed by a newfound respect for the target. After wallowing in mutual failure, we realized we might have been asking the wrong questions all along. Examining ADPhi and Fugitive Poetics as two members of the same literary scene prevented us from seeing that the real answer lay in investigating their differences...
...receiving threat has turned him into a prime target for opposing defenses and provided the Crimson’s other wideouts with breathing room. While injuries have unexpectedly thrust players like Chrissis and sophomore Levi Richards into the spotlight, the players have been able to adjust to their newfound playing time with a relatively low amount of pressure, in large part thanks to Luft’s consistently exceptional play.“They’re seeing all single coverage because [Luft is] getting doubled up a fair amount of time,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...
...poppy tracks like “Live Your Life” and “Dead and Gone.” He flaunts his successes and riches with the best of them, and gives us some mindless beats for those club nights. But he also manages to infuse some newfound morality into the whole mix. And, on the whole, it comes off both thoughtful and sincere. —Reviewer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...