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Harvard sophomore Oliver McNally intentionally fouled Princeton’s Pawel Buczak on the Tigers’ next possession. The center missed the front end of the one-and-one, and the Crimson rushed back down the court...
...attacked off a screen from forward Kyle Casey and then hit the freshman as he popped out behind the perimeter. Casey coolly sank the jumper, and with 39.6 remaining, Harvard was within two. The Crimson set up in its full-court press, but the Tigers inbounded the ball to Dan Mavraides. Lin attempted to poke the ball away from the guard but was whistled for the foul. Mavraides sank both free throws, extending his team’s lead to four with 38.9 ticks left...
...mortgage defaults caused the credit markets to seize up. In all, Lehman lost more than $32 billion from proprietary trading and principal transactions during the year and a half leading up to the financial crisis and since, according to a TIME analysis of Securities Exchange Commission filings and bankruptcy-court documents. That's nearly double the $18 billion in common equity the firm had in late 2006, just before mortgage bonds started going sour in the beginning stages of the financial crisis; it was more than enough to wipe the firm...
...Anti-American sentiment was further stoked Wednesday just hours after news broke of the three U.S. personnel killed in Koto, when a New York City court convicted Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist, of the attempted killing of U.S. personnel after she had been captured in Afghanistan. The verdict triggered an outpouring of rage across the Pakistani media and political class, which has long championed Siddiqui as a victim of alleged American brutality...
...from Holder to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defending the decisions made in Detroit, saying that they were "fully consistent" with policies and practices of the department, the FBI and the government as a whole. Taking full responsibility for the decision to hold and indict Abdulmutallab in the federal court system, Holder said that the President and senior national security officials discussed and rejected putting Abdulmutallab in military custody...