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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson will return all but two regular players next year, including the top three players on this year’s ladder. Those top three—intercollegiate No. 5 sophomore Will Broadbent, No. 7 freshman Siddharth Suchde and Oren—went a combined 9-0 in their matches this weekend and provided three of Harvard’s four wins in the championship match against the Bantams...
With Japanese and U.S. technology battling it out at the top, the only hope for domestic carmakers without joint-venture partners is to capture the bottom end of the market, then begin the slow ascent up the price-and-sophistication ladder. That's the path chosen by BYD, the former bombmaker. The Flyer retails for about $4,700, making it affordable to the 50 million Chinese earning at least $7,000 a year, whom the government considers middle class. "Look around my office," says Liu, the BYD general manager. He has one dusty filing cabinet, bare whitewashed walls...
...asks. "For things like bras, nobody can compete with China." Right you are, Mr. Yang, which is why the U.S.'s uneasy embrace of globalization is chafing against China's emergence as the world's workshop. China rules in stocking stuffers, but it's climbing the technology ladder too. Its huge pool of cheap labor - up to 500 million peasants are expected to migrate to cities in search of factory work over the next two decades - should provide 20 more years of growth for an economy that already produces a quarter of the world's television sets and washing machines...
...Crimson’s wins all came in the top four slots on the ladder. Co-captain Louisa Hall, the intercollegiate No. 4—who as the team’s lone senior was playing in her final match on Harvard courts—was her usual dominating self in the No. 1 slot. Hall took out her overmatched, younger opponent, intercollegiate No. 13 Claire Rein-Weston, in routine fashion...
...took gritty play from up and down the ladder to take out a Penn (8-3, 3-3) team that wouldn’t go down quietly. It may not have been pretty, but it was efficient, as the Crimson subdued the feisty Quakers...