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...repeat as league champions. Harvard is projected to finish fourth in the league, behind Penn and Yale.Harvard will look to surpass these expectations with the help of a stellar senior class. Guard Drew Housman, along with forwards Evan Harris and Andrew Pusar, lead the class in its last crack at an Ivy championship.Ivy League Executive Director Jeff Orleans opened the teleconference by expressing his excitement for the season ahead.“We have some interesting freshmen coming in and some great players coming back,” he said. “It’s going...
...don’t cry Joe. I know it’s sad that Sarah Palin played you like that, but as you crack open your seventh Bud let me ask you this: have you thought of getting revenge? Let’s vote for Obama, Joe. Not because of that universal healthcare nonsense; I know we’ll never get sick too. Not even for human rights or a more inclusive foreign policy; I’m not sure what those things mean either. Let’s vote for him just to get back at McCain...
...Lessig explains, today's copyright laws regulate reproductions or "copies." But in a digital context, every time you listen to a song or play a video, that content is "copied" from a server somewhere to the hard drive in your computer. The same is not true when you crack open a book: "For most of American history it was extraordinarily rare for ordinary citizens to trigger copyright law ... RO culture in the digital age is thus open to control in a way that was never possible in the analog age ... For the first time, [copyright law] reaches beyond the professional...
...Dabbagh is working to remove other barriers as well and crack the Top 10 on competitiveness lists prepared by the World Economic Forum and the World Bank. Since 2005, SAGIA has been pressing the notoriously sclerotic government bureaucracy to become more investor-friendly, simplify procedures and cut back on paperwork. Dahlia Khalifa, an economist on the World Bank team that produces the Doing Business report, credits Saudi Arabia with "consistent reforms over the past three years...
...FDIC maintained its perfect record of returning every penny of every insured depositor's money, and Bair has preserved that record through 15 bank failures this year. That's partly because the FDIC by law gets to tap a failed bank's assets before any other creditors get a crack at the safe...