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...While the recession has helped all types of repair professions, cobblers seem to be enjoying their luck more than others. Shoe repair is a dying industry. During the Great Depression, there were some 130,000 shops in the country. Now there are only 7,000. Graying, middle-aged repairers are the Young Turks; there's a clear shortage of 20- and 30-something cobblers in today's shops. "We have a chance to reintroduce our industry," says Randy Lipson, who runs four shoe-repair shops in St. Louis, Mo. The shoes are falling off the shelves in Lipson's shops...
Obama laughed. He knew better than anyone else that it would take some mighty brainpower--and luck and political genius--to get this next stage right. Orszag had been working the problem for months, leading a four-hour meeting on his birthday, Dec. 16, in Chicago, at which Obama showed up with a vanilla cake. Orszag, Summers, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Orszag's deputy Robert Nabors agreed that there was no avoiding a deficit this year of about $1.5 trillion, including the bank bailout and the stimulus bill. They were prepared to swim even deeper into the red next...
...with her as a fencer.“She’s been very patient with me and everybody else, for someone who has never fenced before,” Brand said. “It’s remarkable really.”Kim has had a little luck too, as she just happened to be in the right place at the right time when entering college. It is exceedingly rare for Harvard to be down a starting female fencer. It’s even more extraordinary that a walk-on was given the chance to fill this void...
...last meeting of these two rivals, the Crimson fell on hard luck. After exchanging leads for most of the game, the Tigers pulled ahead with only 3:49 remaining and held on to win the game, 77-71. Nevertheless, Harvard knows what it has to do to be successful...
...it’s a tribute to their goaltender,” Kester said. “We surpassed them in the shot count in the third period, which was one of our goals, so we’re pretty happy with that. Again, just kind of tough luck.”Harvard got a crucial opportunity late in regulation, when UNH captain Kacey Bellamy was called for checking at 16:32. But once again, the Crimson failed to capitalize on the man advantage, despite launching four shots at Minton. Minton made 33 saves on the evening, while Kessler finished...