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After two blowouts to start Harvard’s road trip, the Crimson kept its first of two games against UNC Greensboro close, but still lost on a 10th inning RBI single for its third loss in as many games...
...There were a couple of games we could have easily lost, but we fought through and won, and there were also some games that we easily could have won and didn’t quite pull out,” Kennifer said. “There was a lot of learning, but there was also a lot of success and growth...
...Even as other economic signals have started to turn positive, the jobs situation has remained bleak. In February, the economy lost a net 36,000 jobs, which is leagues better than the 726,000 lost in February a year earlier but points in the wrong direction all the same. Were the economy to magically start generating jobs at a healthy clip - say, 200,000 a month - it would still take 3½ years to return to where we were, never mind the jobs we need for new entrants to the workforce...
...This reality has triggered a nearly convulsive political response, given that elections are won and lost over the state of the economy and the mind-set of wage earners. That's why President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address, called jobs his "No. 1 focus" and proposed repurposing bank-bailout money to lend more to small businesses, which would then, presumably, generate jobs. On March 17, Congress passed a job-creation bill that includes, among other things, an estimated $13 billion worth of tax incentives to coax companies into adding to their payrolls. (See 10 perfect jobs...
...down economy, plenty of people assume responsibility for reinvention. Lindsey Spratt lost her job as an assistant audio engineer and is now studying to be a chef at the Texas Culinary Academy. Rob Carruthers was laid off from a job as a project manager at a software company and is putting his dual engineering-business background to use as a consultant to tech start-ups and schools. (See "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...