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Whether or not Harvard expects to hold onto its three-year perch atop the Ivy standings next season, the league's also-rans will indubitably view Feaster's departure as an open door, and one that has not been so ajar in at least three seasons...
Soothing proclamations like that one came quickly and from many quarters, reverberating throughout brokerage firms, mutual-fund companies, barbershops and shopping malls all week. Mighty IBM announced that its shares were so attractive, it would spend as much as $3.5 billion buying them back. From her perch as co-chair of the investment-policy committee at venerable Goldman Sachs, Abby Joseph Cohen, the most consistently bullish--and correct--market forecaster of the 1990s, declared the sell-off a buying opportunity and promptly raised from 60% to 65% her portfolio's allocation to stocks...
...powered down or mopped up, the crew had the evening to themselves. This meant they could linger over a Western-style meal of stew or beef at a tiny table in the main module--a welcome relief from the traditional Russian fare of warm borsch and jellied perch...
...named China's President. But his perch at the top was extremely tenuous, almost entirely dependent on Deng's support. For that reason, Jiang was as reticent and correct as possible in his first years in power. When CNN interviewed the new President in 1993, he wanted to read all his answers from a TelePrompTer. On those occasions when he allowed himself a little spontaneity, it tended to backfire. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, he described the Tiananmen killings as "much ado about nothing," prompting outrage in the West. "He is a lightweight," decided a Clinton Administration official...
...symptoms, as clinical depressives often do, but some were outwardly visible: I stopped going to two classes altogether; I lost 20 pounds over the course of the semester; I rarely ate a meal other than dinner, and then usually a meager dinner, almost always alone. From my seventeenth-floor perch over Cambridge, I spent long nights brooding, trying desperately to fend off deeply suicidal moods that regularly haunted me. The first people to notice were my parents, at Thanksgiving break; it wasn't until I returned home for Christmas and had a series of mother-mandated medical exams that...