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...progressed. It was a fittingly wacky end to a week that has seen bourses see-saw with unprecedented volatility. The VIX, Wall Street's leading measure of market volatility and investor fears, briefly scaled 80 points for the first time in its 18-year history Thursday, as stocks slid over recession worries...
...prices, as well as the VIX. In other words, the higher fear levels get, the more the volatility index rises. (The reverse is true, too: when U.S. stocks rallied sharply Oct. 13 in response to plans announced by the U.S. Treasury to buy stakes in big banks, the VIX slid...
...Hack Attack” Hackett ’09, and Clement “Rocks” Wright ’09 on the gridiron that was Leverett tower courtyard—from the two big trees to the steps.We played, and drank, and tackled, and muddied ourselves, and slid, and fell, and caught, and charged, and frolicked, and jumped, and killed, and then, I got knocked out. It was perfect.It was transcendent.And it made all the misery—of the weather, the Crimson, the Hoos—okay.—Staff writer Walter E. Howell...
...nearing the end of the first half, the Badgers’ offense came to life, sending a ball into the box that evaded a diving Mann. Shooting into an open net, Wisconsin looked poised to tie the game just before halftime. But Okuji stepped in front, slid to her right, and deflected the would-be equalizer away from the goal. Captain Nikki Rhodes stepped in to clear the ball away, keeping the Crimson ahead before the break. Although Wisconsin would knot the game up in the second half, the play effectively salvaged a draw for a Crimson team...
...almost didn't, when the close finish prompted the Serbian team to file a protest. From above the water, it looked as if Cavic slid to the wall first, while Phelps was still completing his last, chopped stroke to propel himself to the finish. Each time the last seconds of the race replayed on the screen inside the Cube, Serbian athletes and coaches pointed, outraged, at what looked like an obvious first-place win for Cavic. Super slow motion video, however, captured by the official Olympic timing system by Omega, showed without a doubt that Phelps had touched first...