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...going for both teams, with the Crimson spending more time in the offensive zone and generating the better of the chances at goal. Despite the 13-7 shot advantage in the frame, Harvard just couldn’t generate the offensive blitz necessary to find the back of the net. Freshman forward Alex Killorn had a decent look at goal about halfway through the period, but was foiled by Brown goaltender Michael Clemente, who stopped 39 shots on the night.“They limited us to one-shot opportunities as opposed to us getting any kind of a flurry...
...poor showing on the attack was the result of a lack of urgency and an unwillingness to vigorously create opportunities. In the offensive zone, the effort to win pucks physically and crash the net was nonexistent...
...losses in any downturn are net numbers and hiring does go on. Hiring new employees is almost subterranean and is rarely part of the reporting of the daily carnage that goes with mass layoffs and unemployment numbers. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...easier said than done. New York State is thought to have the fastest-shrinking prison population in the country - from a peak in 1999 of 71,600 to fewer than 60,000 this year - but so far only some prison wards have been closed, not entire facilities, which would net larger savings. That's at least partially because upstate Republicans regard prisons as economic engines. For that reason, closures have to be linked with upstate development plans for the same communities, insists Glenn Martin, the aforementioned former Attica inmate, who is now a Fortune Society vice president working to change...
Between Coverage and Safety Net Pat's decision to save some money by buying short-term insurance was a big mistake, says Karen Pollitz, project director of Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and a leading expert on the individual-insurance market. "These short-term policies are a joke," she says. "Nobody should ever buy them. It is false security that is being sold. It's junk...