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...pull Harvard within two. The Tigers took five of the next six points to make it 19-13. Princeton then pulled away to take the set and the match, 30-20. HARVARD 3, EAST STROUDSBURG 0 The Crimson came into East Stroudsburg eager for a road win. Harvard held the Warriors to a .150 attack percentage in the first set to take it, 30-26. Harvard won the second set, 30-26, in similar fashion by holding the East Stroudsburg offense to a .212 attack percentage. In the third set, The Crimson tallied 17 kills with only one error...
Back in December the unemployment rate in five of those cities - from 2.7% in Morgantown to 5.5% in Jonesboro - was not only well below the national average of 7.2%, but also lower than it had been 12 months earlier; in the sixth, Casper, the rate held steady from a year ago. That put them starkly at odds with the other 363 metropolitan areas tracked by the BLS, all of which were seeing unemployment rising, in some cases sharply. Unemployment in Boise, Idaho, for example, jumped from 3.0% to 7.1% during 2008. In Fresno, Calif., it went from...
...prevailing situation in Pakistan and said the U.S. was keen to see a stable and democratic system strengthened in the country." Earlier in the week, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan paid visits to Zardari and Sharif, while the Obama Administration's special representative to the region, Richard Holbrooke, held a videoconference with Zardari and later telephoned the opposition leader as well. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon have issued similar appeals. (See photos of the attacks on the Sri Lankan cricketers...
...Moment after Clinton's phone calls to the two squabbling politicians, the government held out a peace offering to Sharif. It said it will now file a "review petition" in the Supreme Court, asking that it reconsider its order disqualifying the Sharifs from public office. But the Sharif camp has thus far refused to back down from its hardline position. And so, Pakistan's political crisis continues...
...talks have been held in parallel to negotiations orchestrated by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which has principally involved outside groups like insurers, doctors, labor and big business. Aides to the bipartisan group of lawmakers, citing the delicacy of the talks, provided no details of the potential agreement. However, the two main sticking points remain how to pay for a plan that some estimate could cost as much as $1 trillion and how to integrate a public, government-run plan into the private system, two aides say. (Read about Obama...