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...KEVIN P. PRIOR...
...from maybe 5% to almost 30%. It was a way of trying to protect the portfolio on the downside. We were fortunate to get a lot of the moves right. We were in cash at the top. When the market went down, we lost a lot less [the S&P 500 lost 37% in 2008]. I hate times like this, quite frankly. I hate losing money, so I really look at downside risk...
...possible in the next week. All we’ll do is train.” The Crimson then takes on No. 2 Penn and No. 1 Princeton during the first half of February heading into the season-ending Howe Cup Championship. —Staff writer Barrett P. Kenny can be reached at bpkenny@fas.harvard.edu...
After six years serving as masters of Winthrop House, Stephen P. Rosen and Mandana Sassanfar announced plans to step down at the end of this academic year. They informed the House community in an e-mail Wednesday, citing personal reasons for the decision. Though Winthrop residents said the announcement didn't come unexpectedly—Rosen and Sassanfar have children, some of whom will soon be attending college—they said the Masters would be missed for their warmth and welcoming nature. "To me, the most important thing about them: They're just kind, normal people that you want...
...classic example of what the French call a pétard mouillé - or soggy firecracker that fails to explode. Few of the expected changes to the 35-hour week have materialized since France's Conservative government passed a measure in July designed to make it easier for bosses to force their employees to work more. The move retained the 35-hour week as the nominal legal reference to undercut union protest, but then rendered it nonsensical by giving employers a free hand to set far longer work requirements. So far, however, bosses haven't seen fit to make such...