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...We’re ready to come out of the gate with a lot of energy.”HARVARD 5, RPI 4Harvard’s contest against RPI on Saturday had all the makings of a blowout. The Crimson scored the first four goals of the game and built a 5-2 lead three minutes into the third period, putting the game seemingly out of reach.But the Engineers refused to go down easily, clawing their way back into the game by catching Harvard off guard with two late goals.“[The Engineers] never give...
...better job tonight, but there were misses during key stretches, including when we could have built up our lead,” Amaker said...
...deep tension was built in from the start of the stimulus debate, when Obama stressed both the need for speed and the need for change. There is trauma surgery, and there is transplant surgery; one usually takes a lot longer than the other, and you'd be insane to try to do both together. So I wondered why he seemed to set himself up to fail, insisting that lawmakers do something very big, very hard, very fast, and in a whole...
...Financial firms are built on capital. They take in a dollar, borrow against it and then lend out $3, $4 or $9. Or $30. In the past few years, executives have been using thinner and thinner capital - acquisitions and questionable off-balance-sheet arrangements - to build their money pails. In good times, the more of those cheap sources of capital you use, the more profitable your bank will...
...share buybacks, according to S&P. The result is that over the past decade, BofA's tangible-capital ratio - the amount of tangible equity in relation to tangible assets - has nearly halved from 5% in 1998 to 2.8% in the third quarter of 2008. It became a bank built on air. (See pictures of scared traders...