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...continue to improve and grow as a team, we’ll settle into a game earlier and won’t be playing from behind the eight-ball in the first five minutes,” Caples said...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Comes Up Short in Solid Performance | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...former Communist satellite, and I had to clarify: No, I was referring to the Southern state. For the past four years, this clarification has inevitably been followed by statements such as “Why would your parents immigrate there?” and “Did you grow up on a farm...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: In Defense of the South | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...first, my response to this insulting misrepresentation of my home was an indignant, “No, I did not grow up on a farm. I’m from the Atlanta area.” However, I’ve learned that often at Harvard, “Atlanta” generates as much recognition as “Timbuktu,” or perhaps even less—it’s a city that one vaguely remembers hearing about but doesn’t remember in what context. Although I accept jokes at the expense...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: In Defense of the South | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...what Toobin and others were seeing early were the returns from the cities, towns and suburbs in Maine. In more rural areas, votes were being counted by hand. By midnight, the momentum had swung the other way, and gay-marriage opponents' lead continued to grow into the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay-Marriage Activists Look Ahead After Maine Defeat | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...textile producers to chemical companies have seen their export subsidies rise because their markets worldwide were shriveling, and a panicky Beijing was spooked by the prospect of massive unemployment if factories shut down. "By transferring wealth from households to boost the profitability of producers, China's ability to grow consumption in line with growth of the nation's GDP is severely hampered," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. Indeed, although China is also subsidizing some consumer purchases and retail sales in China were up about 15% in the first nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could China's Economic Policies Trigger Another Crisis? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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