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...emerging middle class in Asia, where gold jewelry is especially popular, will triple demand over the next few years, predicts the World Gold Council. Mining companies won't be able to keep pace because they failed to invest sufficiently in exploration and technology during gold's long slump. Meanwhile, soaring oil prices are contributing to inflation worries; gold is a classic inflation hedge...
Sophomore centerfielder Matt Vance was able to break out of a brief slump by going 2-3 with a triple and two runs scored, in addition to notching a league-leading 24th stolen base. Classmate and second baseman Taylor Meehan had a career effort at the plate, going 4-5, while third baseman Steffan Wilson drove in three, upping his team-leading RBI total...
...first year of good friends, great professors, solid grades, and a fulfilling extracurricular activity—The Crimson. Like a 15-year-old virgin in her first relationship, I was ready for my promise ring to Cambridge.Then this year, something I had only thought to be rumor hit: sophomore slump. Suddenly, work got harder, relationships got more complicated, and I slipped into an increasingly dark depression. By the end of first semester, I had suffered through Moral Reasoning 50, one badly broken heart, and 40 thankless hours a week at The Crimson. Things seemed desperate, and I considered taking...
...Nagin is in the race and expected to easily win a spot for the May runoff. Ever since victims of Hurricane Katrina languished for days at the Superdome without food, water or buses to evacuate, politicians from the Louisiana statehouse to the White House have seen their poll numbers slump to new lows. Nagin, who took the brunt of verbal abuse from evacuees, tried to win them back in January by championing New Orleans as a "chocolate city" - a comment that he admits "soured" his rapport with white voters who got him elected four years ago. Now, however...
That was all Harvard needed to win—but for good measure, senior starter Javi Castellanos rebounded from a season-long slump with the most impressive start, and second win, of his Crimson career...