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She has every reason to be scared because financial services have a record of retrenching fast in a crisis. And the business in some sectors has evaporated. The volume of mergers and acquisitions, for example, is down by about two-thirds from its peak in 2006, while the public stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London's Gathering Storm | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

How bad will it get? The answer depends in large part on how local economies like Pittsburgh's adapt. And here's a surprise: for a metropolis synonymous with America's declining industrial might, the no-longer Steel City seems in a better position to withstand a downturn than many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding One Economic Bright Spot on Main Street | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Cornell, the big surprise of the Ancient Eight, appears to be one of those teams that just knows how to win. The Big Red has outscored its three opponents by a total of just five points, and won last week against Lehigh during the last play of the game on...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ho Back To Lead Crimson Attack | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

It’s no surprise that the Swedish Academy awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for literature to a Frenchman, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. After all, Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Academy, noted just recently that Europe is “the...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Demise of the Prize? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Late last month, the New York Times ran an obituary for reclusive Hungarian artist Simon Hantaï. A relative unknown in America, Hantaï was one of the more innovative figures in 20th-century Continental art, producing works ranging from the “Écriture Rose�...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Street to the Web | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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