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...Harvard received a virtuoso pitching performance from freshman Zach Hofeld, who rose out of obscurity to throw nine innings of four hit, one run ball for a complete game gem that gave the Crimson a 2-1 victory, its first in conference play...
...several outings during last month’s grueling nonconference schedule, but was thrust into the spotlight yesterday with Harvard’s pitching corps sorely depleted. The freshman responded in by far the biggest spot of his career, allowing just one run on four hits while pitching all nine innings. A strikeout of Big Red centerfielder Ry Kagan put the exclamation mark on Hofeld’s first collegiate win—the Crimson’s first in over three weeks...
...economic front, back in 2000 the U.S. invested $33 billion in Russia, which accounted for 22% of foreign direct investment in the country and made the U.S. Russia's top foreign investor. In the first nine months of the 2007, U.S. investment in Russia amounted to $8 billion, while direct investment amounted to $3.6 billion, pushing the U.S. third behind the U.K. and the Netherlands in Russia's list of foreign investors. Clearly U.S. corporations are more cautious about investing in Russia than they were eight years ago - which is hardly surprising given Moscow's willingness to trample over even...
Originally instructed to emerge with a unanimous verdict, the jury was deadlocked into the fourth day of deliberations. The judge, coroner Scott Baker, then told them he would accept a majority decision of nine jurors. An hour after that, they came back with "unlawful killing." In an inquest of few real surprises, this was one of the biggest. Most observers had thought they would agree with the conclusions of the French and British police, ruling the incident an accident. But the jury decided someone had to take the blame...
...their verdict, nine of the jurors agreed that "the crash was caused or contributed to by the speed and manner of driving of the Mercedes, the speed and manner of driving of the following vehicles [and] the impairment of the judgment of the driver of the Mercedes through alcohol." And all eleven believed that the fact that Diana and Dodi weren't wearing seat belts and that the Mercedes hit a pillar in the Pont d'Alma tunnel, instead of a larger surface that might have lessened the impact, were major factors in the deaths. Just as Baker directed...