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...break its eight-game winless streak Saturday, dropping a hard-fought match to Ivy powerhouse Dartmouth by a score of 2-1. But things could have been different if it were not for one call that propelled Harvard (4-7-2, 0-4-1 Ivy) back from the brink of victory to a heartbreaking defeat to the Big Green (9-2-4, 4-1-0). The call came in the 42nd minute, with the Crimson holding a 1-0 lead and controlling play against Dartmouth. Freshmen midfielder John Stamatis, after already receiving a yellow card earlier in the half...
...managed and adequately funded. Most are not. A study of 64 state pension systems by Wilshire Associates, an investment advisory company, found that 54 of them were underfunded by a total of $175.4 billion. The situation is even worse at the municipal level. San Diego, which is on the brink of bankruptcy, is in the hole for $1.4 billion in pensions owed but not covered...
...future for many millions more. A TIME investigation has concluded that long before today's working Americans reach retirement age, policy decisions by Congress favoring corporate and special interests over workers will drive millions of older Americans--a majority of them women--into poverty, push millions more to the brink and turn retirement years into a time of need for everyone but the affluent. The transition is well under way, eroding efforts of the past three decades to eliminate poverty among the aging. From taxes to health care to pensions, Congress has enacted legislation that adds to the cost...
...cooperation through game-theory analysis,” according to a press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which gives the award. Famous for applying game-theory analysis to the study of strategic interaction, especially during the Cold War era as the U.S. was on the brink of nuclear warfare with the Soviet Union, Schelling is for the insightful applications in his work. “The most striking characteristic of what he did in the 1950s and ’60s was to demonstrate precisely that this somewhat arcane tool...was not just a mathematical...
...political process they have until now largely rejected. But the Sunni dilemma reveals deep anxieties that cannot be resolved simply by holding elections. Whether or not Sunnis come out to vote in large numbers in Saturday's referendum, the underlying tensions that have pulled Iraq to the brink of civil war aren't likely to disappear. Few Sunnis have faith in the U.S.-sponsored political process or the Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders who have risen to power in Baghdad. The vote on the constitution--which Sunni leaders oppose because it paves the way for a semiautonomous region...