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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...improvement he’s made physically over the last couple years, the intensity with which he practices every day—it’s something that endears himself to his coaches and his teammates. As far as on the ice, he brings a never-say-die attitude towards goaltending. He’s diving all over the place and has got a great quickness. He’s a guy that’s always trying to improve.”Even so, entering the 2008-09 season, Riley has still only appeared in two games...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holding Out for a Hero | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...pills or make them smaller, if they are difficult to swallow. Second, place pills that are bitter inside empty capsules - no unpleasant taste. Third, explain the critical nature of the disease in one power-packed sentence: Take these medications daily until all are gone, or you will die. If many millions of women can remember to take a birth control pill every day for years, surely those with TB can be convinced to take their medication correctly for six months. Merri Lu Park, ABADIANIA, BRAZIL

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Candidates, Two Styles | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Smith opens with a typically morose line—“I won’t try to bring you down about my suicide”—and continues, “I won’t beg to put you out about my right to die.” But all this feigned moodiness contrasts with the rather tame and generic rock ambience of the music itself. Throughout, you can’t help but wonder if Smith is singing about a real heartache or just crooning about suicide because that’s what he?...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Cure | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Although none are openly licking their wounds, the losses are believed to have affected a number of stalwart hedge funds. Commentators across the board blamed Porsche for causing chaos on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange this week. The daily Die Welt called Porsche the biggest German hedge fund, and criticized Germany's lax disclosure laws. Porsche has been stealthily building a stake in VW and it only retained the element of surprise because German law did not require disclosure of the positions that account for more than 30% of its stake in VW. "Only when it is no longer possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hedge Funds Shorting VW Stung By Porsche | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...have a hard time embracing a black man as President. McCain's campaign says its internal polling shows the gap between the two nominees to be 3 or 4 percentage points closer than the polls, putting McCain theoretically within striking distance in the past week. "It's do or die - this is his last stand, because he's got no other place to go ... This is a forced choice. This is not an option," said pollster and political analyst G. Terry Madonna of Franklin & Marshall College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How McCain Thinks He Can Win Pennsylvania | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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