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...Crimson responded well, earning third place overall. “The conditions were very tricky, and it was a breeze direction that I’ve never seen before,” Kovacs said. “We had some issues starting the races, and we were playing catch-up in most of the races, so we would have liked to be more solid. We were a little disappointed.” Kovacs and junior crew Elyse Dolbec turned in the best performance of the weekend, coming in second in B-division with a total of 50 points. Yale...
...Wells was playing catch-up by the time he opened the case for the defense, teasing the court with the possibility that Libby and even Vice President Dick Cheney would testify. Wells first trotted out six prominent reporters to say they had never discussed Plame with Libby during the summer of 2003. It was an odd start, an indirect approach, implying that if Libby hadn't talked about the CIA operative with luminaries like The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, he probably hadn't mentioned her to any reporter...
...worked with some psychologists in sports psychology about staying positive, and that’s the atmosphere we tried to keep on the bench.” The attitude adjustment, however, seemed to have little effect, as the Crimson was forced to spend much of the contest playing catch-up and was not able to generate enough chances to even the score. “I didn’t feel we were able to ever get the pressure or sustain the attack that we have in the past few games,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato...
...Where so many others would have given up and given in, however, Shawn found just enough cussedness to will himself to the finish. He graduated in December - months before he thought he'd be able to - after playing an aggressive game of academic catch...
...used such enclaves to encourage foreign investment and manufacturing growth. India was, in fact, the first country in Asia to demarcate a special economic enclave when it introduced an "export processing zone" in Gujarat in the mid 1960s. But in the past few years, the country has been playing catch-up with places such as China, which used SEZs to kick-start its own incredible economic expansion almost three decades ago. India attracts barely 10% of the foreign direct investment figure for China (although the two count investment in different ways), and wants to close the gap as rapidly...