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...dent the national debt. The march was organized by labor unions to coincide with the second 24-hour strike in two weeks, which grounded planes, stopped public transportation and shuttered schools. The recently announced belt-tightening measures include tax hikes and government wage freezes. Greece faces a budget deficit estimated at 12.7% of GDP and the possibility of being the first nation to default among the 16 countries that use the euro...
Harvard, which led by as many as nine in the first half, saw its lead dwindle in the minutes before and after the break. Behind 5-of-7 three-point shooting from sophomore Rob Belcore, the Quakers were able to turn a five-point deficit into a one-point lead just over six minutes into the second frame...
Riding a four-game losing streak, the Harvard men’s hockey team was in desperate need of a rapid turnaround to save its season this weekend. That turnaround began on Friday, when the Crimson recovered from a two-goal third period deficit to defeat Princeton in the first game of the ECAC playoffs...
...Hanks first comprehended just how immense his own deficit in Pacific-theater history was while making Saving Private Ryan. Around that time, novelist Nora Ephron (who wrote the screenplay for Sleepless in Seattle, which starred Hanks) sent him the two-volume, 1,882-page Library of America Reporting World War II: American Journalism (1938 to 1946) as a gift. Hanks grew intensely interested in all things related to the Pacific campaign - not necessarily the big names like Tojo or Ernest King, but the 3rd Marine Division, which was ambushed by snipers at Guam, or the intricacies of Operation Detachment...
Despite the deficit, Harvard battled until time ran out. Senior midfielder Travis Burr led the way with two crucial scores, coming with 1:55 and 1:15 remaining. The first goal was unassisted, and the second came with two seconds remaining in a man-up situation, after a pushing penalty removed Hoya Chris Nourse from the game for 30 seconds...