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...Late Thursday, it emerged that the Bank of England had pledged emergency credit to Northern Rock, Britain's fifth-largest mortgage provider and the U.K.'s first bank to be left reeling from the global credit crunch. Jitters in the credit markets were triggered by the collapse of a U.S. subprime mortgage sector built on lending to home buyers with poor credit histories. With that risky debt having been spliced, repackaged and flogged to banks around the world, financial institutions are less keen to lend each other cash. And when they do, they're charging each other more...
Fortunately for the running backs, Harvard boasts one of the deepest receiving corps in the Ivy League. The Crimson is led by fifth-year senior Corey Mazza, who is eligible to play this year after a season-ending injury during the second game of 2005. Mazza caught a team-leading 36 passes and eight touchdowns a year...
...This is going to be my fifth time playing against Holy Cross, so there’s definitely a level of familiarity there,” Mazza said. “I know their defense rather well after this amount of time...
...prevailed on the Democratic side. But in a multicandidate field in Iowa, which it looks as if we'll have for both parties, a few thousand votes--a few hundred votes--could well mean the difference between first place and second and third or, for that matter, third and fifth. And such a small difference could be utterly decisive for who survives and who gets knocked out, who has momentum and who falters...
...category to include children whose families make less than the median U.S. income, and the total rises to 3.4 million--more than the entire population of Iowa. Now the bad news: nearly half of lower-income students in the top tier in reading fall out of it by fifth grade. As economically disadvantaged brainiacs get older, 25% of them drop ranks in math in high school, and 41% don't finish college. "We're losing them at every stage in education," says Joshua Wyner, executive vice president of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which wrote the report with public-policy...