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...world's markets seem willing to settle for that. After last week's losses wiped between 15% to nearly 25% of value off indices around the globe, formerly freaked traders scurried to buy back stocks as slow-moving political leaders responded in union to address the credit crisis. Outdoing Wall Street's 11% romp on Monday, the Nikkei shot up 14.2% Tuesday - an all-time record - making up for lost time after Monday's national holiday. But other Asian indices continued their previous climbs as well. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was up 3.2% over its 10.5% push Monday, while...
...main innovation was bringing a grande piano onstage and a brilliant musician, Freda Locker, to sit at it.The piece d’occasion fared much better. Set to Chopin, “Rhyme”—a world premiere choreographed by Viktor Plotnikov—began with slow, silent movement, with the dancers captured in spotlights like snapshots. This set the stage for a moving and harmonious pas de deux with shockingly acrobatic movements accomplished with the greatest degree of finesse and taste. The highlight was certainly Larissa Ponomarenko’s highly arched instep beating the ground...
...There’s a terrific level of intensity when you play Big Ten schools,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said of the opposition, which included Notre Dame, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Western Michigan, and Ball State. “The courts were really slow, so there were lots of long points. It was a great test of our stamina.” While the Crimson played together on the first two days of competition, the third day of play pitted players with comparable records against each other, and scoring was counted individually...
...that improving lighting along Garden Street and in Cambridge Common is complicated by the issue of jurisdiction too, and Riley said that such additions would require the city’s cooperation. Ellison, the chair of the Harvard College Safety Committee, cautioned that working with the city can be slow. Ellison’s committee, which brings together undergraduate and graduate students, HUPD, the city of Cambridge, and the Harvard administration, will begin meeting at the end of the month. All three speakers emphasized that students must play a role in improving safety on campus. Riley said students must lock...
...potentially harmful effects of the crisis. Although the country's membership in the World Trade Organization has required it to open its financial services sector to global competition and investment in 2006, "there is still only a narrow range of derivative instruments and innovation in financial products is still slow," says Sun Fei, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Hong Kong-based fund manager China International Capital. In other words, China's financial sector is just primitive enough to have prevented its banks from getting burned by buying complicated and ultimately toxic subprime mortgage products and derivative securities...