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...Several bank stocks have doubled or tripled since the beginning of the month and many analysts say that these stocks were "oversold." In reality, when buyers moved into the shares short sellers were pushed out, which gave an irregular boost to buying. But, most of those short sellers are gone now and bank share prices will have to stand on their...
...Jingoism aside, we do not care to profile the Houses. We are not in the architecture business, and you probably already know that if you get Dunster, you’ll spend the next three years inside an irregular dodecahedron cell in Roger Porter’s attic. [1] We are in the people business. Just ask the dining hall workers to whom we give performance reviews after each brunch...
...Unlike the straightforward and approachable libretto, many still regard the music itself as a significant challenge for the performers and the audience alike. With musical content that is strikingly 20th century, music director Yuga J. Cohler ’11 notes that devices such as irregular and syncopated rhythms contribute to the rather bizarre quality of the music, which is neither completely dissonant nor exclusively modern. “Stravinsky wrote it in a more convoluted way than was necessary,” Cohler said. However, Crutchfield believes that the challenging nature of the music will not prevent audiences from...
...strong Zionist—has documented the “Origins of the Palestine Refugee Problem.” During military operations in 1947 and 1948 against Palestinian resisters and Arab invading armies trying ineffectually to prevent the creation of a Jewish state, Jewish regular and irregular forces, sometimes using carefully calibrated terror tactics, drove somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 Palestinian men, women and children from their villages, which they then leveled. After the war, they used force to prevent any of them from returning. Then the new state summarily confiscated their land and property for redistribution...
...surge in late 2006, was so impressed that he later used his powerful connections in the Administration to push for promoting Odierno to Petraeus' job. "He went through a complete metamorphosis," says Keane. "He educated himself and became the pre-eminent operational commander we have in conducting irregular warfare...