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...After eight minutes of play, Harvard had gained a commanding 17-6 lead by hitting shots from all over the floor and getting to the free throw line. If the ball wasn’t being fed to sophomore forward Emma Markley inside on the post, freshman Brogan Berry and co-captain Emily Tay were waiting on the perimeter, feet squared to the basket, ready for the quick catch-and-shoot. If a defender rotated up, forwards like sophomore Claire Wheeler and senior Katie Rollins were waiting for the feed back inside...
...rosy sentimentalist was also a fretful conservative; he backed Joe McCarthy's search for imaginary communists in the State Department. But sometimes he just got fed up, reversing himself on the Vietnam War, telling Richard Nixon, "Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong." In 2005 he suggested that the U.S. should have used nuclear weapons in both Iraq and Afghanistan; yet as casualties mounted in Iraq, he showed impatience, frustration, a hint that he felt betrayed by the policy he'd supported...
...HARVARD GOAL. Beautiful give-and-go between junior Anna McDonald and Vaillancourt. McDonald took the puck at the left circle, passed it to Vaillancourt, and then charged the net. Vaillancourt fed a slick pass down low and McDonald sent it home. HARVARD 1, CORNELL...
...outline of a deal with Treasury to convert the government's holding of Citi preferred stock into common shares. The U.S. Treasury could end up owning more than 36% of the ailing bank. But confidence in the financial community remains low. Describing a vicious cycle of risk aversion, former Fed chief and current Obama adviser Paul Volcker told Congress's joint economic committee on Thursday that "an insecure bank faced with what it sees as insecure borrowers is not a very eager lender. It's a problem of lack of good borrowers, confident borrowers, as well as weak banks...
...FDIC is releasing any number at all remains an enigma. It may be that the agency wants taxpayers to think it is doing a good job counting heads. Chair Bair is shameless in her courting of the media. She would like to be viewed as an equal to the Fed Chairman and Secretary of the Treasury. Maybe if she appears at enough press conferences, her dream will come true...