Word: bangs
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...Harvard women’s hockey team started its season with a bang this weekend, beating Quinnipiac and Princeton on the road. The pair of wins gave the Crimson a perfect start both overall and in ECAC play.Against the Bobcats (1-9, 0-2 ECAC) on Friday, Harvard (2-0, 2-0) trailed 1-0 going into the third period, but two goals from sophomore forward Kate Buesser gave the Crimson a 2-1 victory.Saturday, Harvard put the game out of reach early, jumping out to a 6-1 lead and holding off a late Tigers rally...
...seems extra-attractive," says Hodgman, who believes that jocks vs. geeks has replaced red vs. blue as the reigning cultural conflict of the day. But jockdom, he says, is on the wane. "The world is now driven by knowledge economies. China and India and Dubai do not make Big Bang--theory sitcoms marginalizing their geeks and engineers--unless they actually do, in which case, awesome...
...hope is that further rate cuts will stabilize volatile financial markets and accelerate the slowing economy. But as the rate heads toward zero, the Fed is rapidly running out of room for reductions. Not only that, economists and analysts are questioning whether rate cuts produce any bang for the buck under the current extraordinary circumstances...
...different than the American version? I noticed one comic where Batman was fighting a man who could change into a praying mantis, a drill bit, a pterodactyl...They took it back to the '40s, where there wasn't any deep psychological exploration, just a slam-bang fun thing. There's this one villain called Lord Death Man, and his ability is basically to die. But much more importantly, he comes back to life and starts to haunt Batman's dreams. All kinds of wonderful weird things happen that don't get explained...
...thanks in part to the introduction of three popular new platforms. The $50 billion industry hasn't been around long enough for other recessions to provide a guide as to how it will fare. (People got through the Great Depression just fine without Grand Theft Auto). But, as a bang-for-your-buck form of entertainment, gaming seems likely to maintain its upward trend. "It's cavalier for me to say games won't be impacted at all, but games won't be impacted at all," says Pachter. "Maybe it will dent growth a little...