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...dollar continued its surge against the euro by pushing below $1.27 against the European currency Friday - a dramatic rebound from its record low of $1.60 in April. As investors sell out of stocks in other parts of the world they are rushing back into dollar assets, a traditional safe haven. That would ordinarily be good news for Asian and European exporters, whose products have suddenly become more competitive. But with American consumers cutting back spending, there may not be anyone to sell...
...said that because of the electoral college, so-called “safe states” see little active campaigning and the American populace could end up with a president who failed to win the popular vote, as was the case...
...health care. “It’s interesting to hear about this lack of visibility,” Sarah P. Nasser, a lesbian MIT graduate student who attended the meeting out of personal and academic interest. “There are complaints everywhere, even in such a safe community as Cambridge.” The meeting opened with remarks from Mayor E. Denise Simmons and her chief of staff, Jeff Walker. Simmons is the nation’s first black lesbian female mayor. Former Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, who attended last night?...
...wear. That is not to say that Harvard students are all about form over function; Barbour jackets offer quail pockets that are useful for storing the dead pheasant one may find on his way to class, and they make for handy and spacious pencil cases, too. While within the safe confines of the Harvard bubble, boys will be boys (or in this case, 40-year-old men), but on any other campus, these modern-day dandies would surely get their suspenders snapped against their backs. —Columnist Victoria D. Sung can be reached at vsung@fas.harvard.edu...
...stylish - like a pinstriped Ralph Lauren pantsuit, a spiffy Chanel jacket, or anything by Giorgio Armani? Michelle Obama chose wisely when she picked a floral-printed dress by Thakoon for the convention. Instead Palin opted for bland approximations of what she always wears, a kind of textbook, "safe" Washington insider combo of colorful jacket over black skirt. What a waste...