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...Stone said. “We took stupid penalties—we just can’t afford to do that.” In the third frame and into overtime, however, the Crimson stayed out of the penalty box, while Yale’s pressure became fiercer. The Bulldogs outshot Harvard in the third period and overtime, but Martin’s goaltending and the Crimson defense preserved the tie. On a key chance for Yale in the extra period, Martin dove across the front of the goal to pounce on a loose puck on the other side...
This position in Parliament will be his first public office and will allow Ignatieff to hone his political sparring skills in an arena much fiercer than academia, Albo said...
...deals last year with a volume of $1 billion or more doubled from 2004, while the number of transactions exceeding $5 billion more than tripled, to 408 from 130. Behind this boom is a growing sense among European businesses that they need to get substantially bigger to withstand ever fiercer global competition. A series of Europe-wide measures over the past decade to deregulate and liberalize industries ranging from telecommunications to energy has made this consolidation easier - and more urgent. And the growing role that Eastern Europe plays as both a market and a production site for West European companies...
...historic standards, the Rehnquist years have been collegial, but the public arguments have grown ever fiercer in recent years. Every Justice feels entitled to pen his or her own dissent or concurring opinion to every paragraph written by the majority or the minority. It drives lower courts insane. By now, the Justices may know one another too well. Not since the 1820s has the court gone so long without getting any new blood. Of course, they know Roberts as well, though it may be his knowledge of them that proves a little unsettling. He has studied each of them closely...
...hold positions at some of the nation's most prestigious legal institutions, including Stanford and George-town. But with three of the best-known crits--Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz and Roberto Unger--among those on its 64-member faculty, Harvard has become the leading C.L.S. center. "The battle is fiercer here than elsewhere," says Kennedy, who jokingly refers to himself and the others as "the unholy triumvirate." Less a coherent philosophy than an angle of inquiry, C.L.S. has roots in "legal realism," whose supporters in the 1920s and '30s began to argue that legal precedents could be found to support...