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...necessary as those moves may be, the stock market - the most visible gauge of investor sentiment - has not been convincingly reassured. Why doesn't the news of government's quick and sweeping response stop the slide? "The news has got nothing to do with it," says Jeffrey Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond James. "What it is, is a sequence of events that have brought us into crash mode." Saut traces that sequence of events from the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which wiped out the stockholders of those institutions, to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which...
...issue a woeful jeremiad about our culture’s inexorable backslide. It seems clear that active measures to adapt literacy education to the changing tastes of our youth would prove altogether more effectual than the noisy resignation to predicted intellectual decline that others have been so quick to express. As such, the story in this Sunday’s The New York Times that suggested that many members of the American educational establishment are cautiously optimistic about the role of interactive games in teaching young children to read, was for the most part a heartening piece of news. Parents...
...lesson begins with a surprise: the instructor announces that partners will be mixed together randomly, and two seconds later a quick and confident woman named Angela has split us up. She is unfazed by our attempt to scare her off by saying it’s our first lesson...
...downloaded via a built-in browser, but it is not clear whether the App Center will be accessible from older models of BlackBerry handhelds. The Storm is expected to run on Verizon's 3G network and also support wi-fi, so downloading the apps should be fairly quick. As an added bonus, the Storm will reportedly feature intuitive cut-and-paste functionality - a huge selling point for e-mail junkies who have long favored the BlackBerry brand...
...Baskind, Sheeleigh, and Wylie all managing early shots. Yale also created some good chances. Freshman Hino Miyuki sent a shot over after a well-slotted ball into the middle of the Crimson’s goal-box. Harvard doubled its lead 10 minutes into the half off of a quick counter-attack from a blocked shot by Miyuki. A ball from Sheeleigh sent Baskind in behind the Yale defense, but Sumiyasu saved Baskind’s shot and Sheeleigh’s follow-up effort off the rebound was cleared from the goal line. The ball fell to Baskind...