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...began, the rookie was up for the challenge.In the Crimson’s Ancient Eight opener against Columbia, Brown made perhaps her best showing of the season—a one-hit shutout in which she rung up 14 Lions and walked none—helping Harvard to a narrow 1-0 victory. “You couldn’t even tell she was a freshman out there,” co-captain Bailey Vertovez said. “She dominated as a senior would have. It was so inspiring to play with her…She owned...
...auto task force, he instructed them to "treat these transactions in a commercial manner." That is to say, restructure the companies in a way that makes good business sense. The "commercial" mantra proved fleeting. The first imperative of commerce - to add value and thus earn profits - is too narrow to host all the civic expectations attached to the auto industry. If GM's only task were to make money, the company would shutter its car factories (or move them to low-cost countries) and churn out light trucks...
...suits in state courts would lead to "duplicative litigation." In the third case, the court reversed a decision written by Sotomayor that said individuals have the right to sue a corporation working on behalf of the Federal Government for violations of their constitutional rights. But that was a narrow, 5-4 reversal in which the court's four most consistent liberals - Souter, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens - all supported her reasoning...
...even by First Lady standards. What do you make of that shift and how things have changed since then? You know, I think that today there is consistency and probably a depth to people's exposure to me. When you're in a campaign setting, there's just a narrow prism through which people see not just the wives but the candidates themselves. That's why it never really bothered me ... because I got these questions on the campaign trail - Well, what do you make of this and what people said about that and that? - and I always felt like...
...Tiger websites had reported that the Tiger leaders had contacted the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday morning to inform the aid group that only some 1,000 people remained in the narrow area under Tiger control, including the Tiger leadership, nonmilitary LTTE members and cadres, some injured. The pro-Tiger site TamilNet had reported that LTTE leadership told the ICRC that "there was no firing from the LTTE side" and "urged the ICRC to evacuate the wounded." Both the leaders mentioned in the report were later killed by government forces...