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...City quantitative-research firm, ran a so-called economic-stress test, which analyzes statistical correlations between currency moves and the markets. If the euro and the yen each rise an additional 10% against the dollar from levels in early November, the study found, the Lehman Aggregate Bond Index could slip 0.6%, which means that a $10,000 bond would lose about $60. It would cost the S&P 500 index 3.4%, the NASDAQ 4.5% and the Dow 3.2%. On opposite shores, RiskMetrics found that the weaker dollar could cause the FTSE 100 to edge up 0.43%, while the Nikkei might...
Niagara’s lone goal of the series came on a Harvard slip-up in the first period. Sophomore defenseman Jennifer Skinner missed a Ruggiero pass, and Niagara’s Katie Gray picked up the loose puck. Skinner couldn’t catch up to prevent a shot, and Gray ended nearly 250 straight minutes of shutout hockey by Harvard. Gray beat freshman goaltender Emily Vitt on her left side, finding the angle past Vitt’s glove...
Captain Dante G. Balestracci ’04 sits at his locker, one hand tightly wrapping tape around his muscular fingers on the other hand. Over and over again, like a boxer preparing to slip his gloves on for a prizefight, his hands mindlessly tape themselves as he mentally scans back through game footage and the task that lies ahead...
...important as being able to laugh at your slip-ups is the ability to remain positive—and to be poised if a similar spot arises again...
Ruth Stone’s poem continues, “I think when I wake in the morning/ that I have turned into her./ She hangs in the hall downstairs,/ a shadow with pulled threads./ I slip her over my arms, skin of a matron./ Where are you? I say to myself, to the orphaned body,/ and her coat says,/ Get your purse, have you got your keys?” Wrapped in the customs of this place as securely as a second-hand coat, it’s easy to adopt a Harvard worldview—to ask ourselves...