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...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...
...sacred home, has been overran by illegitimate musical usurpers in their faux-moorish Bastille. For too long have we been denied the basic rights of interhouse guests and leg-room during meals. And tonight another grievance. Before the clock struck half past eight, our beloved Brain Break, which fed us when we were hungry and strengthened us when we were weak, has been stripped of her prize asset: hot water to make...
Amid mounting frustration, the District in 2000 revived a Revolutionary rallying cry, emblazoning the phrase "taxation without representation" on license plates at the suggestion of a fed-up D.C. radio talk-show listener. (They're now the default license option, though neutral plates are issued on request.) Bill Clinton swiftly added the plates to his presidential limousine, though one of George W. Bush's first official acts was to remove them. The protest plates have not returned to President Barack Obama's ride, and some locals are growing impatient. "[It's] just something that the President hasn't gotten...