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...Obama really can pull Republican votes for climate legislation, nuclear support might be a worthwhile price. And because the money is a loan guarantee, if the plants are built on budget and succeed, the funds would be reimbursed to taxpayers. But some environmentalists point out that there's a reason no American nuclear plants have been built in more than three decades: the projects tend to be hit with construction delays, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the risk of default on a new nuclear plant is higher than 50%. In a conference call with reporters, Energy Secretary...
...matchup, the Harvard men’s hockey team was 29-5-3 all-time against No. 16 Union, including a 4-1 win in Schenectady on Jan. 22. That’s why it was not an enormous surprise that the inconsistent Crimson was able to pull out a victory at the Bright Hockey Center Saturday night, despite the Dutchmen’s position atop the ECAC hockey standings and their national ranking...
...Crimson’s lead would not hold up, for in the span of 20 seconds, the Engineers scored twice to tie up the game, 3-3. At that point, Donato decided to pull Carroll for junior Kyle Richter...
Harvard proceeded to pull ahead in the second period with three goals in 14 shots. Freshman Alex Fallstrom started off the Crimson by sneaking the puck past Union’s Corey Milan from the right boards at 1:41. The tally gave Harvard some needed momentum, and about five minutes later, freshman David Valek converted on the rebound of junior Pier-Olivier Michaud’s blocked shot. Killorn logged the final goal of the period after junior Michael Biega won a battle for the puck in the corner and fed the rookie with a nice pass...
...will be difficult. Greece's tax-collection system is an antiquated mess. The state's various financial-information databases are haphazard and fragmented. No single program can pull up all the data about a single taxpayer; without tedious manual cross-checks, there's no way to flag the Kolonaki doctor who is declaring a pittance but living in a multimillion-dollar apartment. So decentralized is the whole system that until recently, Greece's government didn't even know how many people it had on its payroll. (See 10 things to do in Athens...