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For all its implications of a fresh start, the commencement of 2009 was unable to shed the atmosphere of financial doom and gloom that persisted from the previous year. In March, Harvard announced that the payout from the endowment would decline by 8 percent in dollar value for the fiscal...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOP 10 NEWS STORIES OF 2009 | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

But those were the numbers. The reality of the souring fiscal climate hit especially close to home when Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith unveiled in May a series of sweeping cost-cutting measures throughout FAS, which left few areas of student life untouched: fewer hot breakfast...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOP 10 NEWS STORIES OF 2009 | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

On that fateful May afternoon, e-mail lists on campus went afire with anxious messages and questions regarding a rumored shooting on campus, coupled with cryptic text messages sent through the "Message Me" system. Cambridge resident Justin Cosby, 21, had been shot to death in the basement of Kirkland House...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOP 10 NEWS STORIES OF 2009 | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

For decades, residents of U.S. cities would synchronize their pocketwatches using a giant globe that would descend from a pole in a public space to mark the exact hour. Ochs conceived of an ornate "time ball" that would descend just before midnight to mark the exact end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History of The New Year's Eve Ball | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Although the newspaper moved to a different location in 1914, the ball remained a Times Square tradition, with several makeovers along the way. In 1955 it slimmed down to a 200-pound aluminum globe, and remained that way until the 1980s when red lights and a green stem were added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History of The New Year's Eve Ball | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

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