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Summers is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat who believes in trying to keep the conflicting forces of the U.S. economy--free trade, worker protections, rising incomes and fair tax rates--in balance. And he believes in risking dramatic action in a crisis. "It's a lot easier to correct the errors of overreaction than the errors of underreaction," Summers said in a speech to a securities-industry group in October...
Fitzgerald wrote these words about the Manhattan of 1922, but they could just as well apply to The Game tomorrow. As we wrap ourselves in striped scarves and wool coats, trudge home through leaf-coated sidewalks, and watch the mercury dance around the mid-twenties, there’s a simmering sense of anticipation in the air that only a Crimson win can happily resolve...
...know about cotton. None of us had a clue what a dot-com was, but we all know what orange juice is. Before you go to work every morning, you use cotton and wool and silk and rubber and rice and wheat and corn and orange juice and coffee and sugar. Nobody can understand IBM. The chairman of the board of IBM can never understand IBM completely. It's got hundreds of thousands of employees. All you've got to do with cotton is figure out if there's too much or too little. That is not easy...
...Sung, who is also a Crimson Arts Columnist, strolls through the fabric store’s aisles and aisles of multi-colored buttons and faux-fur. Despite the one-day time crunch, Sung is the essence of cool. Dressed in a casual white button-down and gray wool sweater loosely tied around her waist, Sung slings a CVS bag filled with Kraft Easy Mac on one arm, and brown leather handbag across the other...
...World Vegan Day, a celebration of people who don't eat meat. Or eggs. Or cheese. Or mayonnaise. Or honey. Or whey. Or gelatin. Or anything that comes from or includes an animal. Nor do they use any clothing, accessory or object made from an animal. No leather, no wool, no pearls, no ivory-keyed pianos. The animal-free holiday began in 1994, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vegan Society...