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...least for a day, as some of those other schools is very encouraging.” The squad’s overall performance was especially impressive considering UCLA is the nation’s top-ranked team, and Berkeley and Stanford are both within the top 25. In fact, although it was not officially a team event, if the tournament had been scored in the usual team format, the Crimson would have placed second, merely two strokes behind UCLA. Senior Emily Balmert led the way for Harvard, shooting a two-over 74, good for a tie for third place. Compiling...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Excels in Desert Classic | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson also found itself down in the first quarter, trailing the Division III Banana Slugs (11-12), 3-1. But with a barrage of shots from Harvard’s drivers, the Crimson went on a 4-0 run and took a 5-3 advantage. Although Santa Cruz tied the game, Harvard pulled away thanks to six saves from McCarthy in net and six goals from Kennifer.“We stuck it to the Banana Slugs pretty deeply,” Farrar said.In addition to Kennifer’s tallies, the Crimson saw two goals apiece from Zdrojewski...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Splits Final Stretch of West Coast Jaunt | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...that regulations do not prevent people from acting rashly or dishonestly. Rogue traders can still lose hundreds of millions of dollars on an investment bank trading floor with a PC and access to their firm's capital. Inside trading and naked shorting of stocks happen all the time, although both are illegal. Fighting regulation because some people refuse to be regulated turns out to be indefensible because the alternative is chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regulating the Cobblestones on Wall Street | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...What is rarely mentioned is that the best CEOs spend most of their time thinking about what will put their companies out of business and doing something to prevent this catastrophe. Although it may be overly simplistic, GE did it decades ago when it diversified away from being in the light bulb and electric fan businesses that were its beginnings in the 1890s. Some investors would say that GE is too diverse now, but its system served the company well for the great majority of the years during the last century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blaming Newspaper Management for Newspaper Problems | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...Although the ISI's association with the Taliban has hardly been a secret, some observers caution against rushing to judgment. Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, says "this is a very complicated, very nuanced situation." Grenier, now with the security firm Kroll Associates, explains that the ISI operatives who have links to "people we regard as enemies are not so much trying to aid them against America as preparing for a future when Americans and NATO are no longer in Afghanistan." In such a future, "the Pakistanis would be reluctant to concede the field to people whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Pakistan Be Untangled from the Taliban? | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

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