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Both of Altchek’s scores—number five and six on the young season for the standout forward—came with a quick and smart decision in order to surprise Fairfield’s goalie, Andrew Frankel. Frankel had been named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week three times so far this season, but Altchek beat him with surprise tactics...
...METRO 2 AT HARVARD
...drove to meet the President, Bobby Jindal, the Republican Congressman from metro New Orleans, complained about aspects of the federal response: "The bureaucracy needs to do more than one thing at a time. It's appropriate to save people with helicopters, but it can't be done to the exclusion of everything else." Jindal, who served in the President's Administration, would like Bush to ask Colin Powell to come back to run the relief operation. Others urge Bush to rope in New York City's savior Rudy Giuliani. Given the President's own performance, passing the buck wouldn...
...from a surge in low-cost Chinese garments following the end of an international quota system last December. European retailers, increasingly dependent on China as the key source for clothing, never liked the accord. But their disquiet has turned to fury. Big chains including Britain's Next, Germany's Metro and Sweden's H&M complain about not receiving their fall and Christmas stocks. "Textile retailers are looking at empty shelves," warned the Foreign Trade Association, a Brussels-based group that represents E.U. retailers...
...eBay, it's clear the game has only just begun. The company is sinking an additional $100 million into China this year?much of which is going to marketing. eBay ads are ubiquitous on buses in Shanghai and other metro areas, as are its television commercials and online ads as well as other, quirkier promotions. At many popular karaoke bars in Shanghai, for example, customers get an hour of singing and drinking for free if they register as eBay users. The brash Ma mocks these efforts, claiming he canceled his marketing budget in the first half of this year when...