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There has been no shortage of irony and drama in Paul Volcker's eight-year tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. During that time, the U.S. went through one of its deepest economic slumps since the Great Depression, as well as its second longest peacetime boom in modern times. Volcker shares in the blame -- and credit -- for both those cycles, but one major accomplishment was virtually all his own. He was the valiant tamer of U.S. inflation, the tightfisted money manager who stopped one of the worst price spirals in this century and made it bearable once again for Americans...
Sometimes greatness lurks in the most obvious places, but still goes unrecognized and unheralded. You'd think that after winning 58 matches in a row--the longest winning streak in Harvard sports history--someone, somewhere would ask the Harvard squash team how it managed...
...Crimson has not lost a match since February 6, 1982, when Princeton slipped past Harvard, 5-4, in Cambridge. The racquetmen's 58-game winning streak represents the fourth-longest streak in college history. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) and Bill Walton led UCLA to 88 straight victories between 1971-'74, and that record still stands...
...number of New York State legal experts said Merola and his assistant Bookin simply failed to substantiate their charges. Says Columbia University Law Professor Gerard Lynch: "The general feeling is that this is one of the dullest, longest and least persuasive presentations ever made." Joy Fennel, a juror who says she once leaned toward conviction, agrees: "I was frustrated the D.A. didn't do a better job." Several jurors also indicated sympathy with a defense contention that Merola, a Democrat, brought the charges just before the 1984 election in a politically motivated attempt to embarrass the Reagan Administration. Countered Merola...
Compared with the average bug, which goes from birth to death in less than a year, the 17-year cicada is Methuselah: it has the longest life cycle of any known insect. In all, there are twelve distinct broods of 17-year cicadas, each of which emerges in a different year. This year's group is referred to by scientists as Brood 10. The other large group, Brood 14, is due to make its next appearance...