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...spelled disaster for Harvard. The Lions’ stifling full-court pressure forced sloppy play from Crimson guards and post players alike. Harvard’s porous fast-break defense didn’t help its cause, as Columbia was able to convert easy buckets and set up its press. During one three-minute stretch early on, the Crimson turned the ball over five times.When the first-half buzzer sounded and Harvard headed to the locker room down just six, it seemed to have weathered a storm of its own making.“Usually when we have a game...
...similar fate. This month, Geithner pledged that the administration was “going to do our best” to eschew Japan’s example. Last October, Summers compared the downturn to our current recession in a Financial Times column. And, in his first White House press conference, Obama warned that if Washington dithered, the U.S. might suffer a “lost decade” like Japan...
...quickly dished it to Markley for a layup. The beautiful passing tied the score once again with a minute and a half remaining.Columbia continued to find answers, and a layup from Lomax put her team back in front. Following a 30-second timeout, Berry was able to break the press, drawing a foul that sent her to the line.Berry—one of the league’s best from the charity stripe—was short on her first shot. “The free throw was so unlike her,” Tay said...
...hard around here. I know our President won't give up on changing the unproductive partisan habits," Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri Twittered within minutes of the announcement. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who has logged a decade as a political knife fighter, issued sharp words through a press release, suggesting that it was the Senator himself who had thrown his hat into the ring in the first place. "Senator Gregg reached out to the President," Gibbs noted, and was "very clear" that he would "support, embrace and move forward with the President's agenda." Then Gibbs twisted...
...first Commerce Secretary choice, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. But those prior separations were different in kind. Both Daschle and Richardson volunteered to leave the nomination process once their appointments became political liabilities. Gregg was a political asset to the President, one Obama boasted of in his Monday press conference, until the withdrawal. As any teenager will tell you, it's far better when a breakup is mutual than to get dumped when you least expect...