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...money dealers rushed to rid themselves of the currency. Ordinary folk joined the traders in bailing out, queuing up in front of street-corner exchange offices to offer bundles of rubles for dollars or deutsche marks. Shopkeepers shuttered their premises to mark up prices on par with the currency slump, and lines formed at gas stations as motorists tried to fill up their tanks before prices rose. By nightfall the ruble had lost 25% of its value -- the largest single-day decline since free-floating exchange rates were introduced...
...often the case, the elements that make John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" a brilliant piece of film making also restrain the film from being on par with his greatest westerns, "Stagecoach" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence." Nevertheless, it would be foolish for any film lover to miss the screenings of "My Darling Clementine" at the Harvard Film Archive...
Like most other artistically inclined young men of the time, Rorem felt the call of postwar Europe. An ardent Francophile, he became an American in Paris par excellence, finding still headier mentors in the likes of Jean Cocteau, Nadia Boulanger, Francis Poulenc and Marie-Laure de Noailles, the legendary patroness of the avant-garde.Rorem never misses the opportunity to tell us whom he slept with -- and whom he didn't. (Cocteau belongs in the small, latter category...
Today's game is likely to be one of those "close games." Harvard goes into the game a seven-point favorite. Bucknell's defense--more-than-adequate in holding down a sub-par Southern Connecticut last weekend--should give the Crimson's multiple-pro-set offense more of a challenge than Columbia's young corps...
...Crimson is entering its first season of the post-Jeff Zimmerman era. Zimmerman was the team's two-meter man par excellence for the past three seasons, posting some gaudy statistics along the way: last season he tallied 98 goals and 36 assists. In addition, he was a rudder for a program that has steadily developed into one of the east's best over the past seven years...