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...compared with Union’s 11 efforts. The second period, however, proved to be a different story. While the first period was characterized by clean play and fast-moving hockey, penalties in the second period cluttered play and slowed the game’s speed, swinging the momentum in the Dutchmen’s favor. Union looked to even the score at 1:30 in the second when the Dutchmen unleashed a two-on-one attack on Harvard goaltender freshman Matt Hoyle, who deflected the wide-open attempt off his stick at the last moment...
...advantage. Once we started rolling, the Crimson in motion stays in motion.” In the first game, Stevens dominated both sides of the court, posting a .600 attacking percentage and jumping up for seven blocks. After nabbing an early lead, the Ducks kept up its momentum to shut down the Crimson, 30-23. “Despite the statistics, they play a very different tempo than we’re used to,” senior co-captain Brady Weissbourd said. “They hit 600, but a lot of it was sort of tips...
Nonetheless, the idea of new loan guarantees as the solution to fix the banking crisis appears to be gaining momentum in Washington and abroad. Earlier in the week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner seemed to have struck a deal between the FDIC and the Federal Reserve to roll out a new phase of the bank bailout plan that would include both guarantees and direct asset purchases. The latter plan is favored by the FDIC and is often called the "bad bank" approach, because the government would set up an institution to buy up all the loans or bonds that are backed...
...Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned during congressional testimony this week that the U.S. would have to narrow its objectives, abandoning any ideas of turning Afghanistan into "a Central Asian Valhalla." The immediate priority of the Administration's new war plan for Afghanistan is simply to stop the Taliban's momentum...
...impression of military might functions as a force multiplier: back in 1996, the Taliban (with extensive backing from the Pakistani military) raced across Afghanistan to seize power in Kabul by trouncing mujahedin rivals in a few early battles and then simply allowing word of their military prowess and momentum to discourage further resistance. Most of the warlords along the Taliban's path to Kabul simply threw in their lot with what seemed to be an unstoppable force. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...