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...HARVARD GOAL. Sarah Vaillancourt is like T.I. She can have whatever she likes. After stealing the puck, Vaillancourt had a 2-on-1 with Chute. Vaillancourt never rushes. She just held on to the puck until Chute was in the perfect location and then put the puck right on Chute's stick. Everyone knows what a lethal scorer Vaillancourt is, but it's the way her passing game has developed over the last two years that makes her arguably the best player in the country (although very persuasive arguments could be made for Mercyhurst's Megan Agosta). HARVARD 2, CORNELL...
...pile up mountains of credit-card debt. They worked hard for what they had and shared their modest portions with others. Each readily admits to making occasional mistakes with money, but even Warren Buffett has made occasional mistakes with money. Their bitterness stems from a feeling that they've held up their end of the social contract, but now the terms of the deal have been rewritten by malign forces. "It's a different world and a different time," Stevens said ruefully. "Even if you work hard you get laid off." Zachery put it this...
During the banking crisis of 1992, Sweden forced its banks to write down all of its toxic assets, took an equity stake in a handful of the largest banks at the cost of their shareholders, and eventually resold the healthy assets on the public market. Since the government held the reckless banks and their shareholders accountable, some officials say that, after the banks were reprivatized, the total cost of the bailout was close to zero...
...were doing this was the students, the measure of our success was the student experience,” Kagan says.BEIRUT ON THE CHARLESThe absence of community cohesion among the student body during the 1980s and early 1990s may have trickled down from the spirited and sometimes vitriolic debates held during classes, as professors from both ends of the political spectrum flaunted their ideological differences.While many students saw the heated discussions as “amusing” incidents, others felt that they created unnecessary tension and divisiveness outside the classroom. Students who held unpopular views sometimes found themselves the target...
...moment when four-fifths of the area is under the control of the forces of local jihadist Maulana Fazlullah, which have yet to lay down their weapons. Indeed, when the new government administrator took his post in the area on Sunday, he was kidnapped by local Taliban forces and held hostage to secure the release of a handful of their imprisoned comrades. Military officials say the level of civilian casualties in the fighting there made a truce preferable to the ongoing counterinsurgency campaign that had alienated much of the local population...