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...earn the 3-1 victory. Sophomore Alexandra Zindman dropped a tight third set, 8-10, but won a close-fought fourth set, 9-6, to hold on to win the match at No. 8, 3-1. Harvard’s top flights continued to overwhelm their opponents. No. 2 freshman Nirasha Guruge moved to 5-0 on the season after a solid 9-1, 9-2, 9-5 victory. Sophomores No. 3 Alisha Mashruwala and No. 7 Bethan Williams also recorded 3-0 wins to complete the rout for the Crimson. Harvard has been dominant in this first half...
...head could lead to more arterial constriction and more calcium infusions. "Concussion produces an energy crisis in the brain," says David Hovda, director of the Brain Injury Research Center at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. "A second concussion will cause such an energy demand that it will overwhelm the survival capability of the brain." (See the Year in Health, from...
...stronger than the last time I saw her onstage - in a 1999 tribute to her father, film director Vincente Minnelli - and the song selection is a canny mix of crowd-pleasing old faves ("Maybe This Time") and slightly more adventurous fare. (Her over-the-top emotionality doesn't overwhelm the delicate "He's Funny That Way," but she pretty much obliterates the intricately ironic lyrics in Comden and Green's "If.") She shines in a medley paying tribute to the Palace Theatre's vaudeville past and proves she hasn't lost much off her fastball in "Cabaret" - only this time...
...carefully planned, prepackaged bankruptcy would still be troublesome, she says. Throwing 479,000 GM retirees onto the rolls of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., for instance, could overwhelm it. And GM's agreement to fund the United Auto Workers' voluntary employee beneficiary association (VEBA) - thus getting a $50 billion unfunded liability off its books - might then be in jeopardy, as would the union's health benefits. The VEBA has already saved GM nearly $5 billion in the past quarter, and still greater benefits lie ahead...
...sweeter spot on its résumé. At the same time, any projection gaffe - sorry, McCain in fact lost Missouri - will be more difficult to live down. The stakes are high enough to give any seasoned election vet the jitters, and this year's expected high turnout could overwhelm the polling stations and complicate the process even more. "I'm always nervous," says Sheldon Gawiser, director of elections for NBC News, who has worked at the network for 40 years. "So many things can happen. The weather can be a mess. The computers and graphics can have a glitch...