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...banking system. The reason is the continued rise of key interest rates - including all-important mortgage rates - due to financial market distress. We are therefore poised not only to see further policy-rate cuts, but also continued nontraditional central-bank actions to get credit markets working again, including possible outright purchases of U.S. mortgage-backed securities...
...right back where it’s been for the past two months: facing yet another do-or-die weekend in the Ivy League. After clinching a share of the Ancient Eight championship last Friday at Brown, Harvard couldn’t close the deal and take the title outright, dropping a 64-58 loss at Yale en route to a three-way share of the Ivy crown with Dartmouth and Cornell. The league could not use a tiebreaker to name its representative to the NCAA tourney—the three teams each split two games with each other?...
...this different standard for books? In part, I think, it's because books have no Letters to the Editor and no other easy way for readers to dissent or call bluffs. Every book has small mistakes that go uncorrected, and these encourage bigger mistakes and outright fabrications. I was sure when the Internet came along that a site would arise and be acknowledged as the semiofficial Letters to the Editor column for books. But so far, it hasn't happened...
...Colombian border, the Washington, D.C.-based body - which has, since its founding in 1948, too often been hamstrung by a domineering U.S. and Latin America's non-interventionist dogma - issued a resolution that appears to have cooled torrid temperatures in South America a few degrees. The document includes no outright condemnation of Colombia, as Correa and Chavez had demanded, but it calls Colombia's cross-border incursion a violation of international law and calls for an OAS investigative team, as requested by Correa, to visit the site of the raid - moves Uribe and the U.S. had resisted. As a result...
...rimmed out on Friday night? What if Maduka had made it back to Cambridge for the final minutes of Saturday’s game?But if Harvard sweeps Yale and Brown this weekend, the Crimson will clinch its third Ivy League championship in four years and second consecutive outright crown.If that happens, Maduka will at least have the luxury of not having to choose between March Madness and the long jump.My guess, though, is that she’ll wish she had the option.—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...