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...senior’s leadership has been key in overcoming the setbacks Harvard has suffered this season—losses to the University of Connecticut, 4-0, on Oct. 14 and conference rival Princeton, 2-1, on Oct...
...Oct. 2007, then-Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam penned a sharply worded letter to the UC, ending the four-year-old party grant program, which had distributed $1750 per week to fund private student events. Pilbeam accused the UC of condoning parties that centered around alcohol and turning a blind eye to underage drinking...
...Arrested Oct. 7 in Jerusalem while distributing leaflets that praised an August shooting at a gay community center in Tel Aviv that killed two young people. He was armed with a loaded handgun when he was arrested. He confessed to the killings, though police say they're certain he wasn't involved...
...declines in manufacturing and exports has been cheered for its effectiveness. Government stimulus spending and loose credit powered the country's economy to an 8.9% growth rate in the third quarter, and the most recent Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI), a widely watched gauge of economic sentiment released on Oct. 30, rose for the eighth straight month. It now shows "sustained expansion in industrial activity," says Jing Ulrich, managing director at JPMorgan in Hong Kong. At the same time, the U.S.-China economic relationship is not as lopsided as it was a year ago, at least by some measures...
...Bernanke has long let it be known that he thinks the imbalances between the U.S. and China contributed to the financial breakdown of the global economy. China's excess savings were sloshing around and needed a home, and profligate America was more than willing to borrow those savings. On Oct. 19, Bernanke gave a speech in which he said that while personal savings in the U.S. is now rising, the government had to get its own accounts in better order. He then pointedly noted that "policies that artificially enhance incentives for domestic savings and the production of export goods" have...