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Before its victory over Brown, the Crimson disposed of a much weaker squad from the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Harvard had its offense in high gear for the Friday evening game and defeated the Merchant Marine team, 24-11, as Crimson sophomore goalie Jose Villa recorded the victory...
...UMass is a higher caliber team that Brown or the Merchant Marine," Arbelaez said. "We were gearing for Brown this weekend, but next time we'll be ready for [UMass...
...with $1.1 billion in losses for the Japanese bank. If convicted, Iguchi faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and $1 million in fines. The incident is reminiscent of the collapse of Barings Bank, where another rogue trader, Nicholas Leeson, caused the collapse of Britain's oldest merchant bank. Thanks to Daiwa's size, it is in no danger of collapsing...
EDWARD HOPPER DIED in 1967, nearly 30 years ago, but he remains one of those artists whose work--no matter how familiar and often reproduced it has become--comes up fresh whenever you see it. This diffident son of a Nyack, New York, dry-goods merchant had a long working life, almost all of it in America, and a sober style, some of which came from France and particularly from Manet and Daumier. One of his few public utterances--in 1927, to the effect that "now or in the near future, American art should be weaned from its French mother...
...Panama. But the problem was that the CIA and its agents were not in place to watch dictator Manuel Noriega. There was, however, a spy the U.S. could turn to -- in this case a young man, the son of European immigrants, who passed himself off as an international merchant willing to do business with the pariah regime. Noriega had him over for dinner and intimate talks. (The spy had ingratiated himself by presenting the general with a bust of his hero, Napoleon Bonaparte.) As proficient as he was, the American agent did not work...