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...Harvard field hockey team had won 11 of its last 12 meetings with Penn heading into its game on Saturday. Despite the recent success, however, the Crimson lost, 2-0, at Franklin Field for its first Ivy League defeat of the season. The Quakers (2-7, 1-1 Ivy), who had lost seven straight games, attacked right from the beginning. Penn notched three shots on goal in the opening minutes, all of which were stopped by senior goaltender Kylie Stone. The Quakers finally broke through in the eighth minute when they gained a penalty corner, and on the ensuing play...
Biden, Joe •says Obama ad attacking McCain's computer illiteracy was "terrible" •says Obama better not try to take away either of his shotguns •says paying higher taxes is "patriotic" •says, "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television...
...back as the penny-saving Ben Franklin and the conquistadores chasing their dreams of golden cities, this has been a country of mixed minds about how to get rich. We extol the conservative Warren Buffett model: selling 4 cent Cokes for a nickel and conscientiously saving the proceeds, investing in quality goods and well-run enterprises and shunning a penthouse on Central Park when a five-bedroom home in Omaha, Neb., will do. At the same time, we're always on the lookout for the next gold rush, the next Powerball, the next bubble. The fact that Wall Street banks...
...Miami A Suitcase Full of Cash Testimony in the trial of Venezuelan businessman Franklin Duran revealed how officials worked to conceal the source of a suitcase filled with $800,000 intended for Argentine presidential candidate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Duran allegedly attempted to silence Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, the man who was caught with the suitcase in an airport in 2007 and who has suggested that President Hugo Chávez was involved...
...Footprint is as much an exploration of how Europeans interpret the land - how people choose to manage their space and how, sometimes, they fail to do so - as it is about the land itself. Through it all Franklin, who holds a Ph.D. in geography, demonstrates an artist's flair. He sees Greek-Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico, he says, in the winter light of his Spanish farming photos, and American artist Georgia O'Keeffe in the shapes that form in breaking glacial ice. Most of all, Franklin credits the Romantics and their idea "that these sublime landscapes are both beautiful...