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Last year’s FallFest, which drew hundreds with its carnival atmosphere, giant inflatable slide and bouncy dinosaur, has become this year’s FallFeast. The event, run and financed by the Undergraduate Council, will take place tomorrow from 12:30 to 4 p.m. in the Quad...
Worth raising a glass to, right? But all last week's election in Brazil got from Wall Street was a Bronx cheer. The Brazilian currency, the real, continued a slide that, apart from a brief rally after an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue package last August, has gone on all year. In the markets, interest rates on Brazilian bonds (a proxy for the extent to which Wall Street regards investment in Brazil as a risk) are running more than 20 percentage points above comparable U.S. securities...
...again as I read election results online that night, resignation—and not my father’s optimism—dulled my disappointment. Robert Reich had lost and this, I knew, was a symptom of the grinding Massachusetts political machine and of America’s inexorable slide to the right. I knew I would asphyxiate if I held my breath waiting for these things to change...
...Worth raising a glass to, right? But all last week's election in Brazil got from Wall Street was a Bronx cheer. The Brazilian currency, the real, continued a slide that, apart from a brief rally after an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue package last August, has gone on all year. In the markets, interest rates on Brazilian bonds (a proxy for the extent to which Wall Street regards investment in Brazil as a risk) are running more than 20 percentage points above comparable U.S. securities...
Naturally, players do not throw this huge projectile across the ice, but rather slide it from a crouched-down starting position that involves sliding on one foot and somehow not falling over. As Bronowski more elegantly explains, the move looks kind of like an eagle soaring. Players can alter the direction of the rock by curling their wrist left or right, while their teammates assist as well by sweeping the ice in front of the traveling rock for a nice, smooth ride...