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Dates: during 1990-1990
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LAST year in Ec 10, Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 used a close-to-home illustration of the efficiency of free markets at satisfying consumer demand. I don't remember what his point was, but the illustration involved a student declining lunch at the Union and instead using his money across the street at Mr. Bartley's Burgers...

Author: By Zachary M. Schrag, | Title: Debit Where It's Due | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

...Green closed the gap, drawing even at13-13. Harvard clinched the win after Marin savedmatch point with an outstanding back dig to keepthe ball in play. The Crimson won, 15-13, quellingthe threat from the weaker Dartmouth team...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: Exhausted M. Spikers Bounce Big Green | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

...name is Erin Maher, and she has turned heads by launching an awesome aerial attack that has won her three Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors. And Maher is known around the country now, as well. She is ranked second among Division I players in three-point shooting with a 53 percent clip...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Harvard Has Its Own Field of Dreams | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

Tourism officials like to point out that as bad as the crime wave is, it should not trouble foreign visitors if they avoid the worst neighborhoods. "The biggest problem with these reports is the false impression they leave," says Trajano Ribeiro, president of Rio's tourist agency. "When a report comes out saying 50 people were killed in a weekend, the image is that 50 people were gunned down on the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: So You Think Your City's Got Crime? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...this taught us to see the world in bipolar terms as two enormous forces -- one a defender of freedom, the other a source of nightmares. Europe became the point of friction between these two powers, and thus it turned into a single enormous arsenal divided into two parts. In this process, one half of the arsenal became part of that nightmarish power, while the other, the free part, bordering on the ocean and having no wish to be driven into it, was compelled, together with you, to build a complicated security system to which we probably owe the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Has Just Begun | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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