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However, using “Zane” has come back to bite me. Up until recently, my driver’s license said only “Henrietta Z. Wruble,” so using it as identification to fly created a mismatch with my plane tickets. Most airport employees realized that the unusual letter plus my utterly harmless appearance meant that I wasn’t worth harassing, but freshman year one ticket counter attendant decided to chew me out for it. After a short argument and her insistence that “the Z could stand...
...surmount. No. 3 would be a disaster for Greece and for the global financial system. As for No. 4, given that there are no procedures for leaving the euro, it might risk unraveling the entire project. In the euro's prelaunch period, a few skeptics predicted that the mismatch between a single European currency and differing national economic conditions would eventually lead to tension and an ugly breakup. The euro, heretofore one of the great political and economic successes of the past decade, is now undergoing a stress test of that hypothesis...
Dartmouth struggled to put up a fight against the veteran lines of the home team, and the mismatch of size and age eventually became the Big Green’s downfall...
...advantage.The Wildcats’ search for the tying goal would not lead to any scoring threats, and Mann’s only save of the game came on a 30-yarder late in the 83rd minute.The Crimson doubled up its opponents in shots, 26-13, for the contest. The mismatch was particularly notable on corner kicks, as Harvard had seven to New Hampshire’s one.The Crimson still has a long way to go, however.“We haven’t really established ourself yet and the style of play that’s going to define...
...high-end women’s clothing boutique, is closing its doors permanently after nearly nine years in Harvard Square. Owner Marie Santa Maria, who along with her husband Hernando also owns and operates the boutique Via Vai across the street, said that rising rent and a mismatch between the store’s offerings and Harvard Square clientele precipitated the closure. “We’re going to be reinventing ourselves somewhere else,” she said. While Santa Maria declined to disclose the exact location of the new store she and her husband plan...