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...year, reaching a fresh record of almost $120 on Monday. An end Tuesday to the two-day strike over pensions by refinery workers in Scotland - which had earlier halted much of the North Sea's oil production and wreaked havoc with gas supplies in Scotland - won't do a nervous market any harm. But there's little sign of oil prices easing significantly in the short-term; Chakib Khelil, president of OPEC, the oil producers' cartel, admitted Monday he couldn't rule out prices hitting...
...have been the jet lag, or the Bushmills, or the fact that I don't sing and can't dance, but my cousin's wedding, in an artists' colony in western Galilee, had left me feeling a little disjointed. Like most clean-shaven agnostic half-Jews, I get slightly nervous around Hasidim, perhaps because we can't both be right about life. And though my cousin is of mixed-blood, like me, and was never particularly religious, his wedding guests included real-deal Hasids: Ultra-Orthodox men chanting and praying and rocking back and forth, in their fedora hats...
...finally dispatched his opponent 10-7. Kalfayan, who has seen limited playing time this year, was the highlight of the day and capped the Crimson’s shutout of Dartmouth with a strong finish (4-6, 6-2, 11-9). “The match tiebreakers are a nervous eight-or-so minutes,” Fish said. “They decide the whole match after it’s supposed to be over.” “[Kalfayan] showed a lot of fight after being down match point,” Clayton added...
...exhale. This guy has been baseball's best big game hitter the last three seasons. It's April. It's cold. He's coming back from knee surgery. Get out of his way. Give him air. Let Papi be Papi. For once, can we not be the Chicken Little Nervous Nellies of yesteryear? This guy carried us to two World Series championships, the first time that's happened in my lifetime. Guess what? He's human. He's recovering. He'll get his swing back. All will be right in the world. They didn't bury his jersey under...
...safe, but the girls were pretty loose Saturday night,” Rhoads said. “They were comfortable and joking around like their normal selves.Under much windier conditions Sunday, Harvard got off to a fast start and did not look back.“We were definitely nervous [on Sunday],” Hazlett said. “But we went out there, performed well, and did the things we needed to do to maintain our lead.”All five Crimson competitors finished in the top 15 and contributed to the victory, in a tournament where...