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Because Harvard wasn’t serving well in the first two games, the team was forced to switch to float serves in the third set. This shift in tactic, though necessary according to Jones, allowed Princeton to dig the ball out more easily and for their offense to take over the game...

Author: By Catherine E. Coppinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Falls to Tigers, Still Seeks First Season Victory | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...Dalai Lama. He then declined to meet in October due to the Chinese government’s anger. These past four months, however, did not signal an attitude change on the part of the Chinese government. The country’s resistance to climate change negotiations and refusal to float its currency remain large concerns for the United States. Since ignoring the Dalai Lama has not been effective in establishing a more bilateral relationship with the Chinese government, it is no longer in the United States’ interest to avoid dialogue with Tibet in hopes of pleasing China...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Trip to Tibet | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...clean, user-friendly interface of gtrot.com calls a certain phrase to mind. Does it float like a butterfly? Sure, why not. But see, after the jump, how its innovative approach to traveling "connected" promises to stings competitors like, well...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gtrot Your Way Out of Cambridge | 1/2/2010 | See Source »

...around Santa Teresa between 1993 and 1997. The narrative, based on the actual unsolved murders in Juárez known as the feminicidos that continue to this day, mirrors the structure of “The Savage Detectives” in their ephemeral disinterest. Detectives, bodyguards, politicians, and prophets float to the surface and sink back again into an ocean of brutality, where a phantom mental patient desecrates churches and young girls are swallowed whole by unmarked cars in the Mexican night. With its medically precise descriptions of the symptoms and scenery of murder, the Part About the Crimes...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Topography of Hell: Roberto Bolaño’s ‘2666’ | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

Then there is the creaky contraption that is the global monetary system. Since the early 1970s, the world's major currencies have generally been allowed to float freely against one other, but lots of emerging-market countries link their currencies to the dollar. They began doing this to secure a bit of stability in turbulent currency markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dollar in Danger | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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