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...back up for Harvard.These goals brought the Crimson to its highest point differential of the game at 10-3, but 20 minutes still remained on the clock. The Bobcats promptly responded to the goal deficit, putting three in the back of the net within two minutes to close the gap to 10-6.Shortly after the Quinnipiac resurgence, the Crimson offense was back at the Bobcats’ net. Senior Kaitlin Martin and Petropulous added two more tallies for Harvard, extending the lead to 12-6. Petropulous was key in the victory over Quinnipiac, recording two goals, an assist, and dominating...
...jump-start the economy and create or save jobs. “The stimulus package will help enormously,” said Patrick in a testimony to the State’s Ways and Means Committee last week, “But it will not close our budget gap.” In order to address the state’s current $1.1 billion shortfall, Patrick said the state needs new sources of revenue—such as a proposed increase in the gas tax—and budget cuts. —Staff writer Liyun...
...director of the Vera Institute of Justice, there is a "historical moment" afoot now to abandon what he and others in the field call the failed policy of "mass incarceration" in favor of systematic and adequately funded re-entry efforts. But nowhere, he cautions, is there such a gap between what we should do - what we know to be the right thing to do policywise - and what we actually...
...There is a big gap between Medvedev's rhetoric and reality," says Maria Lipman, the editor-in-chief of the Pro et Contra Journal at Moscow's Carnegie Center. "If there is hope a change of fate for Khodorkovsky, then there would have to be a serious political shift in Russia...
...study were 33% more likely to have died after eight years than optimistic black women, while white pessimists were only 13% more likely to have succumbed than their optimistic counterparts. The numbers in the study weren't large enough to support any definitive explanations for this racial gap, but "there is definitely a suggestion that whites and blacks may be different in how optimism affects longevity," says Tindle...