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...league record and hopes for an Ivy League championship.What a difference a year makes.This season, the Crimson (4-26, 3-9 Ivy) and the Bears (14-18, 5-7) will take the diamond as the bottom feeders in the Rolfe Division. Yale sits two-and-a-half games ahead of Brown and Dartmouth leads the division with a 10-2 Ivy record. “Usually there is a lot lying on this [series with Brown],” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “It’s a different feeling; usually you’re looking...
There is no military solution to Afghanistan's woes any more than there is a military solution to Iraq's. But we'll probably face similar problems in the years ahead. Meeting the challenge will require Western democracies to rethink the identities and priorities they forged in a very different world...
...some. Exports accounted for 36.8% of China's GDP in 2006, compared with 43.2% in South Korea. But China may be unusually vulnerable to weaker international demand because the country has in recent years built too many new factories. With investment capital readily available and China's economy roaring ahead at double-digit growth rates, heavy industry expanded massively. The value of China's steel exports, for example, jumped tenfold from 2003 to 2007, from $5 billion to $50 billion...
This overabundance of production capacity means China's export machine is like a race car with no brakes. As long as the road remains smooth and straight, the car roars ahead. But throw in some potholes and a tight turn, and the wheels come off. Factories have been able to increase output in recent years because the global economy has been on a tear. The 2004-07 period saw the second strongest bout of global growth on record--which translated into strong demand for cheap Chinese-made products. But this era may be ending. Most economists are forecasting a significant...
...gave me a good opportunity to make the shots. I was kind of just finishing what they started.”In the first period, the Bears struck first with 8:03 to play in the stanza. Harvard answered four minutes later, but Kyle Hollingsworth helped his team pull ahead with a goal at 0:11. Duboe, on an assist by Zach Widbin, tied the game three minutes into the second period, then turned around to assist Gibbons on his second goal of the game. Eight seconds later, Brown tied it up again.On the half, the Crimson outshot the Bears...