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...Greek Drachmas would get you $3.33. By May 2000, that was down to 27˘. That's the way the currency crumbles in a smallish, less than rich nation beset by government budget deficits, inflation and a spotty record of economic policymaking. Convincing foreign investors to buy your debt is a struggle. Financial life is difficult in ways scarcely imagined by inhabitants of the lucky (and not large) club of nations with solid currencies...
...violent crime. For years, Americans ranked crime at or near the top of their list of urgent issues. Every politician, from alderman to President, was expected to have a crime-fighting agenda, yet many experts despaired of solutions. By 1991, the murder rate in the U.S. reached a near record 9.8 per 100,000 people. Meanwhile, criminologists began to theorize that a looming generation of so-called superpredators would soon make things even worse. (See the top 10 crime stories...
...remarkable work, including his most famous book, A People's History of the United States, is summarized best in his own words. His primary concern, he once explained, was "the countless small actions of unknown people" that lie at the roots of the great moments of history--a record that would be profoundly misleading, and seriously disempowering, if torn from such roots. Howard, who died Jan. 27 at 87, was devoted to the empowerment of these unknowns...
...Crimson traveled to Ithaca, N.Y. this weekend for Part I of the Ivy League Championships, in which the squad faced off against the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Cornell. The men emerged with a 1-1 record, beating the Bulldogs and falling to the Quakers, while the women finished 2-1, falling to Penn as well but beating Yale and Cornell...
Though she already had an Olympic silver medal to her name before coming to Harvard, Botterill—nicknamed “Botts” by friends and teammates—was never one to rest on her laurels, and her unrivalled collegiate record is a testament to her drive, according to her coaches...