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...came Hallion’s comeback. The do-it-all senior, who has led the Crimson, turned on the switch just when Harvard needed a boost. When the Terriers took a 55-45 lead with 10:29 left on a Christine Kinneary jumper, the Crimson stared at a double-digit deficit for the third time in the half. Harvard had made just one field goal during the second half’s opening 10 minutes...
...forward Pat Magnarelli said. “By the end of the game, we were fouling them a lot just to get the ball back. That’s how the lead ballooned up at the end.” Four of Harvard’s starters reached double digits in points, with junior forward Evan Harris leading the pack with 16 and a team-high six rebounds. Housman, Magnarelli, and sophomore guard Jeremy Lin each delivered 10 points. Mountain Hawks guard Marquis Hall stole the show, racking up a game-high 17 points and 5 assists while going...
...Shanghai-based economist Andy Xie calculates that if the stock market drops by half, urban households will lose about 20% of their overall net worth, putting a dent in consumer spending. Overall, economists figure that a 50% decline in equity values might lop 1-1.5% off China's double-digit GDP-growth rate...
...play up to this point, but I think tonight could be a really strong, positive step forward for him to do some positive things for us.” THREE-PEAT For the third year in a row, a nail-biter between these two teams ended with a double-digit victory margin. Two years ago, Harvard held a 51-49 lead on the road with less than four minutes to play before pulling away for a 70-55 victory. Last year, the Crusaders returned the favor, breaking a 63-63 tie with four-and-a-half minutes to play...
Then again, most of these things were true 14 years ago, and Denmark's welfare-state model seemed exhausted, beset by stagnant growth and double-digit unemployment. Some on the political right--including current Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who wrote a book in 1993 called From Social State to Minimal State--were convinced that taxes and spending had to be cut dramatically. But that was never in the cards politically, and Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (there are a lot of Rasmussens in Denmark), who became Prime Minister that year, crafted a compromise that kept the high taxes...