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...Five or six years ago, I fell from the top of one of those loop ramps. I broke my pelvis, fractured my thumb and my skull and got a pretty heavy concussion. That...
Arrested in 1966, Cheng spent more than six years in solitary confinement for refusing to confess to spying for British "running-dog imperialists." Among the evidence gathered for the false charge: her London education, collection of classical-music records and taste for marmalade. Stripped of her name, Prisoner 1806 lost her daughter--killed by Red Guards while Cheng was in jail--but never her resolve. Released in 1973, she eventually settled in Washington, where she died Nov. 2 at 94. Even after China embraced economic reforms and shed much of its communist rigor, Cheng never returned home. The country...
...consumer spending. From this standpoint, the outlook for stocks is even more promising. Companies have rigorously cut costs and positioned themselves for a rapid rise in earnings once top-line growth resumes. Annualized productivity growth in the second and third quarters of 2009 averaged 8.2%, the highest six-month average in 40 years and unprecedented for an economy just emerging from a severe recession. Indeed, third-quarter profits, now being reported, are running well ahead of estimates...
...rookie-veteran duo of Dempsey and Buesser led the way for the Crimson, collaborating on three of Harvard’s goals and combining for six points in the game...
Minorities currently make up 17 percent of the faculty, an increase of 23 percent since 2003, while women hold 26 percent of professor, associate professor, and assistant professor positions, representing a 16 - percent increase over the past six years...