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Jousting. Sky-high slides and long lines for Sno-Cones. Free fried dough. Violent Femmes and the Velcro challenge. Saturday afternoon in the MAC Quad offered Harvard students a chance to experience all of these activities and events along with 3,000 other college kids with spring fever. For a minute, we almost thought we were at Brown...
...diner has become the victim of an expensive construction project and its prominent location. The diner's student clientele and the University draw tourists and tourist dollars to Harvard Square, sending retail rents sky-high. These conditions have changed the face of Harvard Square-and increasingly commercial and gentrified facade will greet future generations of Harvard students...
Forcum scampered to pass the ball deep into the Cornell court, hitting it sky-high and barely missing the scoreboard in the process...
...stakes are sky-high for Americans and people around the world in the contest between financial openness and the growing trend toward controls on capital. If more and more countries manipulate their capital flows, currencies and merchandise imports for competitive advantage--as they did on the cusp of the Great Depression--the threat could spread to U.S. jobs. U.S. unemployment has already edged up from 4.5% in August to 4.6% in September, a month which also saw the slowest rate of job creation in nearly three years...
Most hedge funds use these tools to diversify. But a few, like Long Term Capital, have used them to make huge borrowed-money bets on instruments that can't be found in any newspaper, seeking sky-high returns that can't be sustained. These aren't hedge funds so much as hedge hogs...