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...sometimes resemble a casino in Macau. What happened next, however, was decidedly unusual: investors in New York's equity markets woke up, saw that Shanghai had tanked, and had a collective heart attack: they sent the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 400 points, its biggest single-day drop since Sept. 17, 2001 - the first trading session after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The drop in New York, in turn, fueled fear in markets across Asia the following day, and suddenly investors were seized by visions of a rerun of 1997's "Asian contagion," when a financial crisis...
...thought it was unfair that most of her friends on the circuit, some of whom were much older than she was, did not have to undergo schooling and were able to spend that extra time on the court. “I have friends that are middle school drop-outs,” Ko says. “You know it’s hard, playing tennis. You want to sleep but you have to do to your homework. I worked my ass off.”Ko also struggled with the homeschooling dynamic. She sometimes fell dangerously behind. Once...
First off, we want to apologize for our absence these past few weeks, but we have been up to our navels with our theses and job interviews. Well, DA has decided to drop his thesis and Peter found a great bargain on collegepapers.com, so that’s taken care of. Plus, we finally found a new president for Harvard, so that’s over and not a moment too soon; if we ever see the inside of Loeb House again, we’re running away to Connecticut and starting over. We don’t want...
...Landers writes. Intimidated? Don’t be: the class is incredibly supportive. “We recognize that it takes courage to come in here and try. We won’t laugh at you for having trouble,” reads the note to newbies. So, drop your pants and your social norms. As nude yogi Wayne E. puts it, “You live in your body. Why not enjoy it and see what it can do all by itself and not... wrapped up and covered?” - Charles R. Melvoin assisted in the research...
...vast oil wealth for the first time since 1972, when Iraq nationalized the oil industry. In theory, that could finally fix Iraq's shambolic oil sector, whose infrastructure has been crippled by decades of wars and sanctions. Production these days hovers around 2 million barrels a day, a big drop from Iraq's prewar peak of more than 3 million barrels...