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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard Advocate's Winter 2009 issue, themed Archives, is now available in or around your dining hall. But before you grab a copy with your hangover tomorrow morning, check out this brief rundown...

Author: By Erin C. Yu | Title: Advocate Archives Issue | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...banks' resistance may be the biggest hurdle Geithner faces in his plans to rebuild the financial sector. At the height of the crisis over the winter, there were neither buyers nor sellers for the toxic assets. Saddled with the assets on their balance sheets, the banks sharply curtailed lending, threatening to throw the economy into a tailspin. The Bush and Obama Administrations poured money into the banks to allow them to restart some lending, but the toxic assets remained on the banks' books. (See five lessons from the AIG-bonus blowup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banks Balk at Selling Toxic Assets | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...connection to the institution seems tenuous at best. In interviews, he rarely mentions his Harvard years.Later this month, Whitehead will embark on a tour to promote his new novel, “Sag Harbor,” an excerpt of which appeared in The New Yorker’s Winter Fiction Issue. Last time he was in town, in 2006, he drew a crowd of 75 people to the Brattle Theatre, according to Heather Gain of Harvard Book Store. This time when he is in Boston, he will read at Porter Square Books on May 7. When asked about...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colson Whitehead '91 | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...first, the only one, awake. It’s not so familiar that I don’t have to look for the bathroom, so I shuffle around in the thick shag carpeting until I find it, behind a crudely painted white door that hangs ajar amidst winter sunlight. It’s a tiny attic bathroom with a sharp eave descending over the toilet so I have to hunch to stand under it and squint at the sharp light reflecting off the snow on the roof, through the diagonal glass panes of the window. It hurts so much that...

Author: By David L Rice, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Dawson's Creaak | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...From the 17th century onward, dairy farmers who wanted to supplement their income from milk - or who just needed a source of sweetener that was better and cheaper than sugar or molasses - drilled small holes in the trees during the brief weather window between winter and spring. (Sap typically runs out of maple trees on days when the temperature is around 40 degrees following a night when the mercury dropped below freezing.) The farmers called the maple tree stands "sugar bushes" and hung buckets under the drilled holes. Every day or two - depending on how fast the sap was running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maple Syrup | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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