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...Critics say that Baidu has won favor with the government through its rigorous self-censorship. (Punch in "Tiananmen Square 1989" and you'll mostly get results about security arrangements for the 2008 Olympics and last year's celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, with only a few sanitized references to the student demonstrations.) Authorities have certainly scrutinized and disrupted Google's China operations far more frequently than Baidu's (one former Google employee calls it "operational harassment"). But it's not at all clear that it made much of a difference...
...throughout the night to keep the Crimson comfortably ahead of its Ivy opponent. Sophomores Oliver McNally and Max Kenyi, along with freshmen Brandyn Curry and Christian Webster, helped keep the Quaker offense at bay while keeping the momentum—and score—in Harvard’s favor on the other end of the court...
Indeed, a number of former and current Wall Streeters have come out in favor of limiting proprietary trading by banks. At the Senate hearing on Thursday, former chairman of Citigroup John Reed said he supported a Volcker-rule-like separation of financial firms. "The industry should be compartmentalized so as to limit the propagation of failures and also to preserve cultural boundaries," Reed told Senators...
...after the game-changing goal, Brown was able to secure the win with two empty-net goals in the third period after Richter was subbed out in favor of an extra attacker...
...spouse is pretty much the only person you can't cut out of a will," says Wynne Whitman, an estate-planning lawyer in New Jersey. Although the law differs from state to state, attorneys say statutes and courts tend to favor surviving spouses in determining inheritances, especially if there are minor children. (The Hoppers have a 6-year-old.) The court might even posthumously change a prenuptial agreement, which the Hoppers also have and which Victoria Hopper is challenging...