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...support for Strauss-Kahn to replace current IMF director general, Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, who steps down in October. That would appear to make Strauss-Kahn a lock for the job, although not if developing nations - emboldened by recent grumblings from Britain - propose a strong alternative candidate. In going to bat for the former Socialist Finance Minister who oversaw France's last big economic and employment boom in the late 1990s, however, Sarkozy gives little sign he's ready to foreswear the European grip on the position for the sake of greater international diversity...
Some feel women are on an impossible search for the perfect man, the one who not only makes you feel, as Julia Roberts said of meeting Benjamin Bratt, "hit in the head with a bat," but also better for it. "Marriage is not what it used to be, getting stability or economic help," says the National Marriage Project's Whitehead. "Marriage has become this spiritualized thing, with labels like 'best friend' and 'soul mate'" Some sociologists say these lofty standards make sense at a time when the high divorce rate hisses in the background like Darth Vader. But others suggest...
Wilson was in the midst of practice with his Cape Cod Baseball League team when he received the news. It was on Cape Cod where Wilson vaulted onto scouts’ radars with a standout 2006 summer in the wood-bat league, regarded as one of the nation’s premier proving grounds for collegiate talent...
...season, with Stoeckel and captain second baseman Brendan Byrne turning many a pretty double play and senior catcher Andrew Casey—who joined batterymate Perlman on the league’s second team—throwing out would-be baserunners at a dependable clip. After losing two big bats in Josh Klimkiewicz ’06 and Lance Salsgiver ’06 to graduation, the Crimson knew that it would struggle to score runs. But it didn’t think that a few holes in the lineup would cost it its Rolfe Divison title and the chance...
...sure that they are going to be in the Ivy Championship, other than us. I think us.” Allard was right, of course. The Harvard softball team (31-15, 14-6 Ivy) began the year playing in tournaments across the country and found success right off the bat. Three weeks into its season, the Crimson won the Mercer Nisan Classic in Georgia. In the championship game, junior Danielle Kerper knocked in four RBI to help Harvard win a close 5-4 battle over Wright State. From there, the Crimson rattled off a 23-9 record, including a stretch...