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...fail to pay its foreign debts if prices drop further. "How long it takes before a crisis breaks out depends on oil prices," said Stiglitz. With Courtis predicting that the price will fall past $20 per bbl.--good news, on the other hand, for the U.S. and Europe--the margin between world prosperity and a deep trough seems slim indeed...
Tonight's game is critically important to the Ivy title race. Penn (15-5, 7-0) has won 14 straight--albeit some in precarious fashion--to move two games up on the rest of the league. Harvard and Brown, second and third in the Ivies, have little margin for error in catching the Quakers...
Princeton (11-10-2, 6-10-2) followed up its 6-2 loss to Brown on Saturday with a 3-1 upset over Harvard. Despite being outshot by a margin of 2-1 in the game against the Crimson, the Tigers prevailed on the strong goaltending of Sarah Ahlquist and the conversion of its only two power play opportunities with two goals. Princeton will be on the road next Saturday against Niagara...
...catching, and therefore attractive to the media. Yet this alternative view of voting recognizes the larger context of our campaigns and elections. Politicians function, not with the zero-sum calculus that determines their victory or loss, but rather on the balance of their own popularity. Politicians interpret their margin of victory as the length of the leash granted to their governance. (A fact that should make the next four years very amusing, if nothing else.) By voting, young people get an inch--no matter how small--of the leash granted to our politicians. More plainly, by voting, young people help...
Poor ice conditions would not be enough to prevent the Crimson from defeating the hapless Bulldogs (3-17-2, 2-17-1) for the second time this season, although by a far lesser margin than last time...