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...Where Do We Go from Here? There's no question that the crisis has gone so deep that it cannot be halted by one stroke. Banks and other financial companies around the globe are struggling to pull themselves out of this mess. Rebuilding will take time, vast amounts of money and constant attention. Sooner or later, the hundreds of billions (or trillions) of dollars that the Fed and other central bankers are throwing into the markets will stabilize things. Sooner or later, housing prices will stop falling because no financial trend continues forever...
...final match, leading BC by as much as four. Late in the set, an Ingersoll block capped off a small Crimson rally, bringing the score to 19-15. The Eagles responded with a kill on the next play. McKinley then committed two consecutive attack errors, allowing BC to pull to within one point of tying the set, 19-18. “We’re not used to being up by four points,” Kocurek said. “We’re going to learn how to capitalize on the lead.” Although McKinley...
...that one opportunity. So it’s great that we actually got those chances.” “We did have the pressure going, we did have the momentum,” Rhodes added. “We just tried to keep that momentum going and pull out the win.”Surprisingly, the extra-time tally was the first goal of the two-time captain’s career in crimson and white. But scoring is nothing new for Rhodes’ classmate Erin Wylie, who got things started up top for Harvard...
...Asian markets took a beating as investors dumped stocks in the wake of the Lehman Bros. collapse and Merrill Lynch buyout, anxiety over U.S. financial companies was still spreading. By mid-afternoon, a crowd of roughly 150 people still swarmed the entrance of AIA Singapore Ltd., many trying to pull out their funds or cancel their insurance policies. They shrugged off the blistering heat - as well as assurances from its general manager Mark O'Dell, that the company has "a strong, well-positioned business in Singapore." With over four thousand agents and two million policies in force in this city...
...charging and "battery swap" stations. Agassi imagines a subscription model similar to how mobile phones work. Drivers would lease the batteries that power their electric cars, and be charged based on how much they drove. If they needed to drive farther than the range of the battery, drivers would pull over into a Better Place station and swap the depleted battery for a fresh one in a few minutes. Agassi already has commitments from Israel and Denmark to begin developing the model, and Nissan is aboard to make the cars. "We started swimming and a tsunami has come," says Agassi...