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...throughout the Northeast seemed to wash away the old guard of the Ancient Eight and create an opening for a new order.Harvard and Yale–the two Ivy giants that tied for first in the preseason Ivy League media poll and seemed poise to cruise through conference play en route to another battle of the titans at The Game in Week 10–were toppled by a pair of league upstarts that refused to be overlooked.The Crimson met its demise at the hands of Brown in Providence by a score of 24-22. Much of Harvard?...
...find loopholes in the law. "It brings everything off the books," explains Will Evans, who is tracking outside spending at the Center for Investigative Reporting. "It takes away the disclosure that used to happen." The partisan war has further escalated because of technological shifts that have made communicating en masse over the Internet all but free. Viral e-mail messages are spamming inboxes daily, with rumors and innuendo that range from the credible to the outrageously false, with no ready way for voters to distinguish between...
...major quality issues with our nation's flagship product. The authorities have acknowledged the problem--"This is a humbling, humbling time for the United States of America" is how Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put it in one TV interview. So now Paulson & Co. are recalling defective financial products en masse, slapping GUARANTEED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT labels on some of them and replacing others outright with U.S. treasuries...
...momentum plays for the Crimson. Although the first three quarters proved to be less than fruitful for the offense, which had to settle for just two field goals, Harvard demonstrated why it is the reigning Ivy League champion in the fourth quarter, scoring 19 points in the final period en route to its comeback victory. Iannuzzi and Lorditch showed what they were made of, as each played a major part of several significant drives down the field. With 13:43 remaining in the game, Pizzotti hit Iannuzzi with a 68-yard touchdown pass, the longest pass of the night...
...Treasury Department and Federal Reserve now are making plans to buy troubled mortgage securities en masse from banks and other financial firms. This would amount to moving from ad hoc loans and bailouts to a more systematic approach to resolving the bad-debt problems at the heart of the current financial crisis. Systematic apparently sounds good - the Dow jumped 400 points after CNBC first reported Thursday that such an effort was in the works, and on Friday, markets around the world opened sharply higher. But the price tag could be steep. "We're talking hundreds of billions," Treasury Secretary Hank...