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...just Japan that has a lot at stake. Still-limping tigers like Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore need healthy Japanese banks to lend their businesses money, and free-spending Japanese consumers to buy their exports. Japan, in its current state, has neither. The once-emulated economic juggernaut has been reduced to the humiliating status of an export-dumping nation, irking the U.S. profoundly in the process and affording no help whatsoever to its shell-shocked Asian neighbors...
...four years, Walsh has rebuilt a once-faltering program, which finished 10-25 under Coach Leigh Hogan in 1995, into an Ivy juggernaut. The Crimson has tallied three consecutive league crowns and a 64-16 league record while storming three times into the NCAA field...
Drawn by these and other factors, more and more international students are applying to the juggernaut across the ocean...
...nation's newest offensive juggernaut traveled to Durham, N.H. on Dec. 6 for its first classic confrontation of the season against UNH. The result was the most defensive-oriented contest of the four meetings between the two best teams in the country. UNH took a 2-1 lead with 7:39 left in the game, but back-to-back goals by Shewchuk and Botterill, coming within 52 seconds of each other, gave Harvard the 3-2 lead and the No. 1 ranking for good...
...been to sea for a year and would be sunk in minutes in a battle with a U.S. attack sub. The People's Republic has no aircraft carriers (the U.S. maintains 11 carrier battle groups), no long-range strategic bombers (the U.S. has 174) and funds this stumbling juggernaut with a budget of 14 cents for every dollar the U.S. spends on defense. The P.L.A., says the Pentagon, is "still decades away from possessing a comprehensive capability to engage and defeat a modern adversary beyond China's boundaries...