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...upperclassman, West has taken his game up another notch, managing to top his start of four straight 3-0 match victories last season with a current streak...
...double figures, with Lin leading the pack with 18 points. He also chipped in seven assists, five boards, three blocks, and two steals in an all-around solid performance that seems to have become typical this season. Northeastern’s top guard, junior Matt Channing, was able to notch 21 points despite shooting only 38-percent from the field. His defensive assignment, Kenyi, was able to get in his face for most of the night, coming away with the ball more than once...
...said he has found no evidence of wrongdoing by President-elect Barack Obama in the tangled, tawdry scheme that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich allegedly cooked up to sell Obama's now vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. But for politicians, it's never good news when a top-notch prosecutor has to go out of his way to distance them from a front-page scandal. And indeed, there are enough connections between the worlds of Blagojevich and Obama that the whole thing has the potential to grow beyond a colorful Chicago tale of corruption to entangle members...
...Homeland Security looks a lot like the person currently holding the job. Governor Janet Napolitano is a former prosecutor who cares more about immigration and border security than almost anything else. But Napolitano will be very different from Secretary Michael Chertoff in two major ways. First, she is a notch to the left of Chertoff on immigration matters, having repeatedly criticized the building of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and having opposed state bills targeting illegal immigrants. Still, as governor of Arizona, she knows more about immigration than any other DHS fiefdom (and there are hundreds...
...professor at the Stern Business School at New York University, has warned for years of the dangers of a coming financial implosion. "The risk of a hard landing in China is sharply rising," he wrote recently. "A deceleration in the Chinese growth rate to 7% in 2009 - just a notch above a 6% "hard landing" - is highly likely, and an even worse outcome cannot be ruled out at this point." But other analysts, many of whom are China specialists, believe that a range of factors unique to the nation will not only likely preserve it from the worst...