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Repairing that will require the nation to kick its housing addiction. In future, says Rossa White, chief economist at Davy, a Dublin-based brokerage, "Ireland, as a small economy, will rely on trade to generate increases in living standards. We need to get back to that. We lost sight of it." That won't be easy, as long as major trading partners are themselves caught up in the slowdown; the U.S., for instance, buys roughly a fifth of Ireland's exports. It'll take some time, too, for exporters to redeploy resources such as labor freed by the housing slowdown...
...Bolaño moved to Europe and misspent an entire decade there as an itinerant laborer, living the life of a poète maudit and striking up an acquaintance with heroin. But in 1990, finding himself a husband and father, Bolaño decided to kick the smack and take up writing fiction in the hope of supporting his family. His prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked...
...first step, says Bednarz, is to recognize medicine's dependence on oil. Then "human ingenuity and creativity will kick in and we'll get actual solutions for moving medicine beyond...
...shots. But junior Lauren Mann, and the Lion’s Rebecca Taylor mainained their composure and refused to let another ball past them. The Crimson headed into halftime with a 1-0 lead. Just four minutes into the second half, Harvard committed a foul, giving a penalty free kick to the Lions. Ashlin Yahr was granted the shot and sent it into the back left corner past a diving Mann. With the early second-half goal, Columbia tied the game at one. But the Crimson still had some fight left, and the team responded to the Lions goal with...
...title in a 2-1 double-overtime thriller. What mattered nearly as much was what happened off the field. The crowd packed the stands, spiraling out to the Columbia side of the field. From the final 10 minutes of regulation until Lizzy Nichols’ penalty kick winner with nine seconds to go, no one sat down. For almost 30 minutes of Saturday’s game, no one stopped cheering. For a team that is often overshadowed by its men’s counterpart, this was its moment, and it took the opportunity head...