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...gossip” in mid-January and still has relatively few entries—most of which are observational: “A senior boys’ blocking group is conducting a facial hair competition,” EL announced in its second post. Other posts offer less obvious information. “Sorry, ladies. It looks like your favorite Irish GZ senior may not be so single anymore,” said El. For Eliot residents, The El Word is not necessarily a source of juicy information. “It’s usually just stuff that everybody...
...matches at 125 and 285 pounds. Although Harvard claimed the majority of bouts, the early deficit proved insurmountable.“I think we outwrestled them,” O’Connor said. “We went out there and fought and I think it was pretty obvious that we were the better team. If circumstances [were changed], the match would have turned out differently.”O’Connor, Caputo, and Peppelman (12-7) led the charge with two major decisions and a technical fall, giving the Crimson 13 critical points. Olsen fought through...
...most obvious way for a financial firm to end run the new government rules is to give its top money makers huge base salaries and move the compensation system almost totally away from one that depends on bonuses. Congress and the Administration won't like that. Count on any attempts to change pay packages to keep compensation high to be knocked down before they gather momentum...
...woes have an obvious cause: the public perception is that his administration has failed to come up with strong enough medicine to counteract the country's increasingly dire economic plight. The world's second-largest economy shrank at an alarming annualized rate of 12.7% last quarter, its worst quarterly contraction since the 1974 oil shock. Exports also fell an unprecedented 13.9%, while the unemployment rate shot up to 4.4% in December, reaching levels not seen since World War II. "There is no doubt that the economy is in its worst state in the postwar period," said Economic and Fiscal Policy...
...that Aso's comments made him "flabbergasted to the point that I want to laugh." Koizumi also expressed doubts about Aso's stimulus package and his ability to lead the LDP in upcoming parliamentary elections. Gerald Curtis, professor of political science at Columbia University, says there is an obvious rift in the LDP. Koizumi's attack on Aso was a way of "throwing down the gauntlet," he says...