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...minutes into the period, Lin took the ball from the top of the key and drove hard down the middle of the lane for an uncontested lay-up. A little over two minutes later, the senior knocked down a three-pointer for the right corner, and in the ensuing possession, he drove and dished to Miller for an easy two. The stretch was part of a run that pushed Harvard’s lead to 17 points midway through the half...
Geoffrey Little—a spokesman for the Yale University Library, which chose to cut its collections budget rather than lay off employees last year—said that top administrators had painted a grim outlook during a series of town hall meetings in early December...
Like what? One approach is to lay on a heavy cost of being big. Too-big-to-fail banks should have a capital cost that will make it a disadvantage to compete in the riskiest parts of the financial-services market. I also like President Obama's recent proposal, the so-called Volcker Rule, which would limit proprietary trading and investing. Combining these two regulatory changes ought to encourage big banks to figure out new business strategies, and that would involve selling off some of their riskier businesses...
Ironically, while Harvard had a prolific scoring night, it was a missed shot, that excited the crowd. Five minutes into the second half, sophomore forward Keith Wright had a wide-open, fast break lay-up. But as he jumped, the ball slipped out of his hands and rocketed off the backboard for a highlight-reel blooper...
...policy, the President recommitted himself to health care reform, though he did not lay out a strategy for passage. He gave glancing mentions to both repealing the ban on gays in the military and confronting immigration reform but offered no clear hope for resolving those issues. He was fiercely critical of the Supreme Court's recent ruling to allow corporate and union contributions to political campaigns, earning himself a disapproving head shake from Justice Samuel Alito, who sat in his robe in the second row. Obama also spoke at length about the deficit, saying he would freeze government spending...