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...Monday, the Dow registered its largest fall since the first day of trading after the Sept. 11 attacks. The S&P 500 index, a broader index which typically is less volatile than the Dow, is down 7.6 percent this week...
...While many on Wall Street have lost or are in line to lose their jobs, N. Gregory Mankiw, the economics professor who teaches Harvard’s introductory economics course, took a more light-hearted view in a blog post on Monday...
...Sugarland, had just wrapped up his first week at Harvard when Hurricane Ike started barrelling through Galveston Island and Houston on Friday. Akinfenwa found himself unable to contact his family when 110-mile-per-hour winds disabled most means of communication in and outside of the city. Not until Monday night did he finally get through to his family and hear they were safe. Southeast Texas may be almost 2,000 miles away from Cambridge, but for some Harvard students from the Lone Star state including Akinfenwa, Hurricane Ike was more than just a big weekend news story. Roberta...
...shotgun marriage between Zimbabwe's government and opposition was never going to be easy, but it could falter at the first hurdle. Despite signing a power-sharing agreement on Monday, President Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival and new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have failed to agree on who will control which portfolios in a new cabinet. A meeting between the two men on Thursday aimed at resolving the issue broke up without agreement, as reports began to trickle in of violence breaking out in different parts of the country between supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF and the opposition...
...blundered in this election, we would not be facing all this humiliation." The bitterness of their president's words will have burned in the ears of army generals and ZANU-PF hardliners who have vowed never to accept MDC rule. The power-sharing agreement signed on Monday gives the MDC, which won the parliamentary elections in March, a razor thin majority in the cabinet that will run Zimbabwe's government. Mugabe, however, assured his backers that ZANU-PF remains "in the driving seat" and "will not tolerate any nonsense from its partners" - words more likely to incite his generals than...