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The action started in 2001 and 2002, with the Fed bringing interest rates close to zero as the stock market melted down. It continued last fall with the frantic efforts by the Fed and its counterparts in Europe to keep skittish banks lending to one another, and this year with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visa Charges On | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

Other jewels present in the DSM are Opposition Defiant Disorder (a “recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior towards authority”), Caffeine Intoxication (characterized by “restlessness, nervousness, excitement, flushed face, insomnia, and gastrointestinal disturbance” after drinking two to three...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: The Mad, Mad World | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

While this method seems like the right one, it is not the national norm. That Harvard as an educational institution wants to make a contingent of undergraduates feel satisfied is reasonable. Indeed, just a few minutes on the elliptical machine in full sweatpants and a headscarf is an unpleasant prospect...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: No Boys Allowed | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

Because of this, it is understandable that not winning the Beanpot in three years has been an especially unpleasant experience for the Harvard women’s hockey team.

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Crimson Ends Beanpot Draught | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

Harvard is a university particularly enamored by statistics: a nine percent acceptance rate, a $35 billion endowment, and 15 million holdings in the library system. These are numbers that define and meter out the quantity of Harvard’s prestige. We are superior to our peer institutions, it seems...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: An Academic Color-by-Numbers | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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