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Harvard women’s tennis co-captains Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson advanced to the quarterfinals in the doubles draw of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships on Thursday at the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Harvard’s leading duo defeated Boglarka Berecz and Lolita Frangulyan of Florida 9-7, advancing to an elite eight showdown on Friday with the number one-seeded pair in the tournament, Georgia’s Shadisha Robinson and Caroline Basu. O’Riain and Anderson will attempt to become the first Harvard team to capture...
...Riain and Anderson won three matches to escape the doubles qualifying bracket. The pair defeated teams from Michigan and Pepperdine and then knocked off Florida’s Whitney Benik and Nina Suvak to make it to the main draw. Last year, Benik and Frangulyan teamed up to capture the tournament’s doubles title...
...opportunity--he even rents out his yacht when he's not using it. His companies have more than $400 million in property up for sale because he believes the real-estate market is a bubble. He donated $10 million for a stadium project in Queens, N.Y., then negotiated to draw out the payments. Battling entrenched corporate bigwigs was a central tenet in his raising $2.5 billion for his own hedge fund. "I'm not Robin Hood," Icahn says, "but it's great when you can make a lot of money by helping all shareholders." Some would say that's just...
...towns in New England, many southern towns formed around manufacturing centers. Then came outsourcing, and with outsourcing, the closure of numerous factories. Factory closures led to layoffs, and layoffs dealt devastating blows to rural economies, many of which have such low education levels and wages that they fail to draw in new, well-paying businesses. Unemployment payments are only a temporary respite for those who cannot afford to move to where the jobs have gone. Farming, once the backbone of the American economy and the typical country job, has become too expensive for many families. No longer a profitable venture...
Something, however, can be done. At the local level, municipal governments, instead of being complacent with an economy based on manufacturing and farming, should vigilantly attempt to draw in new, sustainable businesses. States should continue to invest in retraining programs through community colleges to teach rural workers modern labor skills. At the federal level, direct aid to farmers and the rural poor should replace ineffective agriculture subsidies that do little good...