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...point it was down more than 500 - concerns heightened about the fate of the U.S. economy. A 9% downdraft in Chinese stocks earlier in the day triggered the selling on Wall Street, while some downbeat economic news and an unexpected warning from an old bogeyman, Alan Greenspan, threw a scare into investors...
...party we threw was absolutely essential,” Bacchus Society President Patti L. Zadnik ’08 wrote in an e-mail to the UC open list. “We were literally the only party that welcomed everyone with open arms that evening and most likely that weekend in general...
...roller-coaster ride. In Bulgaria, he played for Levski, a Sofia-based club then owned by a Russian oligarch named Michael Chorny who, at the time, was banned from setting foot on Bulgarian soil because of alleged ties with organized crime. A big star in Sofia, Gaucho threw a tantrum after a coach replaced him in an important UEFA Champions League qualification match. He picked up his brother and a bottle of Jack Daniels and disappeared for a week, leaving reporters to speculate about his whereabouts. (He had retreated to the seaside resort of Varna.) "It was a scandal...
...Advocate threw off its artsy vibe and embraced pearls and tuxes for one night at their debutante ball this weekend. But most of the Advo regulars were tempted by the imported beers, table dancing, and vaulted ceilings of nearby Lampoon Castle...just down the road, self-reverence was in equal attendance at the Fox’s annual Valentine’s Day dinner this weekend, replete with drunken poetic toasts and even a sing-a-long (whatever, just make out already)...speaking of spit-swapping, onlookers stood horrified as one dean’s son got (and gave...
...environment essentially free of sexual expectations was liberating. Going to a Catholic school with a class of 48 girls was a culture shock after graduating one of 460 from a co-ed public middle school, and the creeping approach of Valentine’s Day threw the absence of boys into high relief—not to say that I had a lot of game in middle school, or even that my “romantic” encounters went at all beyond shy flirtation with my stand-partner in orchestra. But regardless of the actual outcome of any Valentine?...