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...focus shifted towards the team’s next preseason goal of winning the Ivy League crown. But an injury on Saturday left a dark cloud over the Crimson’s title chances entering a road tilt Princeton on Sunday, and the Tigers took advantage, ruining an otherwise clean Harvard conference slate for the second year in a row. Now, the team’s most immediate goal is the league’s finale at home against Yale on Wednesday. “We’re going to do some serious training and make some adjustments...
Thanks in part to this reputation for clean dealing, foreign firms can get as much as 37% more for their stock on U.S. markets than they can elsewhere, including on the London Stock Exchange, according to an article co-authored by Karolyi. That's a big reason why, per dollar raised, U.S. stock offerings are the cheapest in the world...
...what about Sarbanes-Oxley, the 2002 law enacted to prevent Enron-style scandals? Among other burdens, it requires financial statements so squeaky clean that a company's chief executive and financial officers can vouch for their accuracy. Corporate executives estimate that the law has cost U.S. companies tens of billions of dollars in extra auditing fees and other expenses...
...then came Joe Biden. Announcing his run for President, he praised his Senate colleague and presidential rival Barack Obama as "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy" and declared that this was a first for African-American presidential candidates. Generally, the first thing that happens when someone commits a boner like this is that everybody else--political rivals, journalists, news junkies, even his or her staff--has a good laugh. Then all the players declare how saddened they are or how angry they are and demand an apology...
...back on track. “He was ready to go at the beginning of the match, but we held him,” Crimson coach Christopher Ridolfi said. “But he said, ‘I want to go on the court, and I want to clean this up.’ So I put him on in the second game, and he certainly cleaned it up for us.” With Fitz setting, Harvard exploded offensively in the second frame, posting a hitting percentage of .714. The Crimson made its run early in the game...