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...China's selloff came as stocks there moved off record highs amid fears that Beijing might raise interest rates to slow economic growth. It came at a time when the U.S. markets were ripe for a correction: analysts noted that the Dow has not dropped by as much as 2% in more than 120 trading days...
With matches next weekend against Virginia and Vanderbilt, Mukundan feels the time is ripe for the Crimson to score its first win of the season...
...ripe with ingredients for a classic game: two of the top 10 teams in the country, three Olympians, as many overtimes, and one winning shot. Not to mention a storyline about history, adversity, and revenge. And all of this taking place during the first round of the Boston area’s storied hockey tournament, the Beanpot...
...combination of experience, an appetite for change and challenge, and a tie to Harvard. Among the 22 confirmed candidates, only two were in their 40s. Fifteen were in their 50s while five were in their 60s. Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, became president in 1868 at the ripe age of 35. Derek C. Bok and Summers, who became president at the ages of 40 and 46 respectively. Faust is 59 and, like Neil L. Rudenstine—the first man since before World War I to be chosen president while in his 50s—she will not occupy...
...petition to remove Starbucks from the Forbidden City garnered half a million signatures; the Beijing News carried the story; Starbucks PR people made placating noises (there are already 200 outlets in China and the company aims to make the country its biggest market after the U.S., so they were ripe for the plucking); and various wangchong - networms, as they are known - made knee-jerk nationalist comments. In fact, the outlet, a tiny, hole-in-the-wall store with no sign outside, has been serving its signature overpriced, coffee-flavored milk to tourists for no less than six years...