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...ninth seeds all defeated their Rochester opponents. Senior Niko Hrdy won 3-2, sophomore J. Reed Endresen won 3-1, and freshman Will Ahmed shut his opponent out 3-0. But in the second round of matches, Rochester proved it was not going down without a fight. The fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth seeds all lost to their Yellowjacket opponents. Bolstered by the support of the home crowd, West and DiSesa played Harvard to the narrow win. “The crowd was great [Saturday],” Lavoie said. “They really got us pumped...
...really a surprise for me to do well with just seven steps. But hopefully I can work on using my full approach more this season to get higher jumps.” Senior Brittan Smith finished a very competitive women’s 60-meter dash in fourth place, registering a time of 7.93 in the finals, more than a tenth of a second faster than her preliminary run. In the women’s 60-meter hurdles, senior Shannon Flahive and freshman Christine Reed finished third and seventh, respectively, with times of 9.12 and 9.59. Flahive also tallied...
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...Blagojevich is prosecuted, he’ll be the fourth Illinois governor to face corruption charges, and maybe even the fourth to serve a prison sentence as a result. This proud legacy can be traced back at least to that great patriarch of corruption, Gov. Len Small (1921-29), who was let off on charges of embezzling $600,000 from the state after he offered his jurors cushy state jobs. Such a grand inheritance of corruption can scarcely be rivaled in any other state, from sea to shining sea, and it’s important not to overlook the good...
...latest trade data show that sustaining China's economic boom over the next year will prove arduous if not impossible. Last month China's exports, a major driver of the world's fourth-largest economy, fell by 2.2% compared with November, 2006. The result marked the country's first decline in exports in seven years and was a sharp reversal of the double-digit growth rates manufacturers have typically posted in recent years. The drop was "a shock figure," says Ben Simpfendorfer, the Hong Kong-based chief China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "I had expected exports...