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After one half of play it looked like the Harvard men’s soccer team was about to live a repeat of last’s year game against Vermont, when it lost to the Catamounts, 1-0. After a halt-time pep talk though, Harvard (5-2-0, 0-0-0 Ivy) returned to the field with renewed energy and defeated Vermont (3-4-2) 2-1 in overtime.“I am proud of the team because in years past we might have lost this game or tied this game,” said head coach...
...have the U.N. delegates forgotten that the same hopeful new Middle East of which President Bush spoke was the reason offered by his Administration for refusing, for weeks, to call a halt to the Israeli military actions against Hizballah in Lebanon which destroyed much of Lebanon's infrastructure. The military campaign was necessary, U.S. officials said, to help rid Lebanon of Hizballah's independent armed capability - even though the elected, moderate government of Lebanon, on which Bush heaped praise during his U.N. speech, was among those pleading with the U.S. call an immediate cease-fire...
...local industry to consolidate so that Chinese firms would be large enough to compete with global giants. And in late August, the Ministry of Commerce issued new rules on mergers and acquisitions, including a number of vague provisions that appear to give the ministry wide powers to review and halt mergers. Bob Poole, who heads the Beijing office for the U.S.-China Business Council, says there are good aspects to the changes?for example, they spell out previously unclear procedures for foreign purchases of Chinese companies. But he says some parts of the regulations are "not clear and might...
...coalition, diplomatic efforts are moving too slowly, some believe, to stop the Iranians before they acquire the makings of a nuclear device. And Iran has played its hand shrewdly so far. Tehran took weeks to reply to a formal proposal from the U.N. Security Council calling on a halt to uranium enrichment. When it did, its official response was a mosaic of half-steps, conditions and boilerplate that suggested Tehran has little intention of backing down. "The Iranians," says a Western diplomat in Washington, "are very able negotiators...
...would probably send oil prices soaring above $100 per bbl.--which may explain why the Navy wants to be sure its small fleet of minesweepers is ready to go into action at a moment's notice. It is unlikely that Iran would turn off its own oil spigot or halt its exports through pipelines overland, but it could direct its proxies in Iraq and Saudi Arabia to attack pipelines, wells and shipment points inside those countries, further choking supply and driving up prices...