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Japan Chucks in Its Clogs It's difficult to imagine how an amusement park built around windmills and giant wooden shoes could fail, but last week Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, became the country's third largest bankruptcy this year, with liabilities of $1.95 billion. With unemployment at record highs, people in the world's second-biggest economy are in no mood to play; indeed, the once-booming leisure industry is also responsible for the country's two largest bankruptcies. The fall of Huis Ten Bosch is most significant because it highlights Japan's banking...
However, though the Crimson beat Columbia (10-13, 3-7) 90-62 on Feb. 14, taking two may not be a walk in the park...
...would be a lot cooler [than just playing at Fenway Park during the Beanpot],” Mann said. “It would kinda get Harvard baseball out there a little better...
...past, evangelical Christians, who often prefer a more emotional and freewheeling worship style than more traditional churches offer, haven’t had many options for worship at Harvard. Many rode the “T” into Boston every Sunday morning to attend Park Street Church, and others went to a small church near Boston University. But now, Harvard’s evangelical students—a loosely defined group with a total membership of about a few hundred—are finding a new home within easy walking distance from their dorms...
...pages, many of which Mailer sutured together into an article in a late December issue of The New Yorker: “the most powerful leverage in fiction comes from point of view” (found in an analysis of the last draft of his third novel, The Deer Park); “film is best when ambiguous” (found in an essay on writing for the silver screen); “your material only becomes valuable when it is existential, by which I mean an experience you do not control” (found in an account of Mailer?...