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Two years ago, it saved what may go down as the greatest season in Harvard football history. Last season, it was the only blemish on the resume of the eventual Ivy League champs.But on the eve of this year’s Ivy League opener against Brown (1-0) on...
There have, however, been a couple of notable nonstarters. The London Futures and Options Exchange halted its property futures in 1991 four months into trading, after a scandal erupted over dummy trades. In 1993 the Chicago Board of Trade, with help from Shiller and Case, readied its own foray but...
And so, for that matter, was Emperor Manuel. He was the political and religious head of a much-shrunken and highly endangered Byzantine Empire, surrounded by the Ottoman Turks, who would swallow it up 53 years after his death. At a very early age he began a career as the...
Dinners with the faculty in Victorian manors, bearded men in smoking jackets, pretentious banter over sherry carts—you won’t find any of these august fixtures in the Philosophy concentration. (There’s always the Divinity School and the Society of Fellows for that.) What...
The Taliban's resurgence is Zabul is notable precisely because the region had once been touted as the Coalition's success story in the south. A U.S.-led provincial reconstruction project saw the construction of a new hospital, a woman's center, a job-training facility and a new bank...