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...Despite its youth, Harvard opened the season strong, winning its first five matches against Brown, Stanford, Williams, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Harvard was led by impressive play from freshmen No. 1 June Tiong and No. 2 Alisha Mashruwala. Despite playing the top two flights without prior collegiate experience, both adapted quickly to the level of play and each started the season 5-0. “There was a lot of pressure for me as I had not played as part of a team before,” Tiong said. “I felt that I needed...
...point. Prior to the 2006 crisis, analysts warned that Iceland - where Land Rovers and private jets seem to outnumber the nation's 308,000 people - was growing too quickly, and that excessive consumption would cause the economy to overheat. Yet the nation's three largest commercial banks - Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir - continued to exploit their then strong currency and cheap credit to buy banks in Denmark, Norway and the U.K., as well as British retailers like House of Fraser and Moss Bros. They amassed foreign assets equivalent to 800% of the nation's GDP, the highest ratio of any country...
...Prior to the CTSC grant, the University had been awarded four General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) grants from the NIH to conduct a wide range of clinical studies at academic health care centers, including Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, both of which are Medical School affiliates...
...will be a crisis manager, not a crisis resolver," says Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East Center in Beirut. Prior to his election as President, Suleiman was commander of the Lebanese army, an appointment he was accorded in 1998 under the auspices of Syria, which then dominated Lebanon. Since Syria disengaged from Lebanon in April 2005 following mass street protests, Suleiman has steered an even course amid feuding Lebanese factions. His priority has been to preserve the integrity of the Lebanese army, widely regarded as almost the only functioning state institution. Suleiman's profile rose considerably...
...Japan, Australia and Singapore. China, needless to say, was not pleased, and made formal protests to all the participants. For those tempted to point out the economic interdependence between China and the West, Kagan grimly reminds us that the same was true of Imperial Germany and Great Britain prior to World...