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...Crimson scored the first four goals of the game and built a 5-2 lead three minutes into the third period, putting the game seemingly out of reach.But the Engineers refused to go down easily, clawing their way back into the game by catching Harvard off guard with two late goals.“[The Engineers] never give up,” Stone said. “They play hard and smart and their goaltender did well. You have to learn to bury teams like that.”The Crimson did learn, in fact, and just in time. After...
Scott Sigler of San Francisco also missed out on getting his first novel published, with a deal collapsing in late 2001. But like Hutchins, he built a big Internet fan base on novel podcasting, which led to a 2007 deal with The Crown Publishing Company (a division of Random House), one believed to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sigler reached a milestone this month by cracking the New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list with Contagious, a first for an author emerging from the podcast genre. The print run for Contagious is 80,000 copies...
...late November, the government agreed in a deal struck over a weekend, to guarantee 90% of the losses on a pool of $300 billion in loans held by Citigroup. The government insurance was supposed to put the bank back on solid footing. At the time, a number of analysts said Citigroup needed as much as $300 billion in new capital to survive. The government thought insuring the loans, rather than the more costly and politically difficult path of just handing Citigroup money directly, would be enough to stabilize the bank. (Read "Why Your Bank Is Broke...
Noted health care economist and former Dean of the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87 will become the latest Harvard professor to serve in the Obama administration, he said in an interview late last night. Cutler joins three other members of the economics department already headed to Washington—rounding out a group that includes professors Jeremy C. Stein and Jeffrey B. Liebman, as well as former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who heads the National Economic Council. “I think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world...
...Today, the radical militia dispersed by the U.S. invasion in late 2001 is back with a vengeance, able to operate freely in much of the countryside and moving closer to the major cities. And as the Taliban well knows, in a rural society dominated by local warlords, the impression of military might functions as a force multiplier: back in 1996, the Taliban (with extensive backing from the Pakistani military) raced across Afghanistan to seize power in Kabul by trouncing mujahedin rivals in a few early battles and then simply allowing word of their military prowess and momentum to discourage further...