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Clarkson's first tally--a soft wrist shot by co-captain Kent Huskins through Jonas' five-hole at 19:16--illustrated a disturbing defensive trend. After dazzling spectators with his Dominik Hasek-like antics between the pipes most of this season, Jonas has had a string of sub-par performances...
...country boasts world-class oil and gas reserves, on a par with those of the largest OPEC producers. The problem is getting the oil out of the ground and to market. Years of Soviet mismanagement and underinvestment have taken their toll. Russia's oil fields are in dire need of rehabilitation; Sakhalin's north and much of Siberia are littered with rusting derricks ringed by porous labyrinths of old pipelines. Local environmentalists, pointing to the recent spill near the Galapagos Islands, worry about the potential damage to Sakhalin's rich ecosystem caused by toxic drilling waste...
...some reason, the pardon has made even his staunchest allies question him. For those who consider him the Beelzebub of American politics, it's just par for the course. As Sophocles wrote, consider no man happy till you know his end. Consider no politician successful till you know how he leaves office...
...fear that retaining the small schools as academically separate units would limit students' ability to shape their own education. These schools will not be entirely on par with one another. Some teachers are more skilled than others, some are specialized in certain areas--and these teachers cannot all be divided in five parts and shared. Students should not be denied the opportunity--especially by a policy intended to break down barriers--to learn from the most talented instructors...
...hassle of staying up to par on the latest laundry technology and the inconvenience of frequently repairing machines that have suffered the brunt of Harvard students' misplaced angst, Harvard subcontracts the operation and maintenance of its laundry facilities to a Cambridge based corporation called Mac-Gray. Mac-Gray provides and services the machines as often as is necessary and, in turn, Mac-Gray collects the profits that the machines generate. However, the money that the machines bring in far exceeds the costs of maintaining them, and therefore Mac-Gray returns a fixed percentage of the revenues generated by Harvard...