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...weren’t quite there [at the beginning of the season],” sophomore Agnes Sibilski said. “We played some other matches, but we knew that the Ivy games were the most important, so we wanted to try and get everyone to peak at this time. It definitely happened, and everyone was really focused coming into the Ivy League.” One of the keys to the Crimson’s success was making sure that the team developed into a tight and supportive group. Throughout the season, the team stressed recognizing the importance...
...Love Song’ has been Bareilles first and only chart-climber, reaching a peak position of number four on Billboard’s Hot 100 in the summer...
Dressed in jeans, boots and a baseball cap with a camouflage peak and a hunting outfitter's logo, the Texas governor was one of the few major politicians to appear at the tea parties across the country. While crowds yelled "Secede! Secede!," Perry - 60 but telegenic and youthful - thought out loud that secession might be the outcome if Washington does not mend its "oppressive" high-spending, dictatorial ways. (Most experts say the notion that Texas can legally secede is mistaken, but the state does have the right to split into five states, offering the prospect of 10 U.S. Senators, math...
...health of the manufacturing sector, rebounded into positive territory in March after falling for months, indicating that industrial output may be expanding again. Home sales are also showing signs of recovery, as is lending. Even the stock market, which had plunged by some two-thirds from its peak in 2007, has clawed back 25% in the last few months. (See pictures of China's investment in Africa...
...believes. (He'd originally expected this to happen last November; instead it was in March.) Home prices should reach their lowest point by the end of the year. ("I feel very confident about this.") The fiscal-stimulus program should start to work by this summer. Unemployment will peak in the second quarter of 2010. And economic expansion should begin again in the fall of 2010. "My point is, things can turn pretty quickly," Zandi said, chuckling. "How's that for a happy ending?" After the presentation, he was engulfed in a sort of economic-geek circle at the front...