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...Crimson took a 10-9 lead it never relinquished, leading by as many as six, before taking game three, 30-27.The comeback effort looked dead, though, as the fourth game began, when Penn jumped out to a 7-1, and later a 19-10 lead. But Harvard refused to quit, and used three Quaker attack errors to score the next six points, to pull within 19-16.Penn widened the gap a bit more, though, taking a 27-23 lead. But two kills each from Turley-Molony and junior Suzie Trimble were part of a 7-1 Crimson run to finish the game...
...neutral adults. She cites such tough-minded women, not girls, as Meg Whitman and Anne Mulcahy, the CEOs, respectively, of eBay and Xerox. Girls, she wrote witheringly, are "nice to be around and they're nice to have around--sort of like pets." In case anyone missed the message: "Quit bein' a girl!" Frankel commanded...
...Afterwards, wash your hands with soap and water. Simple, right? Maybe not. A 2005 study by the American Society for Microbiology found that while 91 percent of American adults claim they scrub their hands post-loo, researchers in four cities discovered that a mere 83 percent actually washed. So quit worrying about your toilet and take a tip from gross-out king Howard Stern. Even he, a man who farts into his microphone, refuses to shake hands...
...wrote software for many years, but quit early in this decade, for reasons including damage to my economic niche by labor market flooding that had gone on for years and promises to continue. H-1B visas played a part. I doubt there is a labor shortage now. Where did you get the idea that there was? How would you define one? Is it when companies cannot easily find the people they want to work at wages and under conditions they offer? If there were a real shortage, reflected concretely, for example, in big increases in wages, surely many U.S. citizens...
...police. The embattled artist took to practicing outdoors, atop a hill in Boston Common.Three years ago, a fellow Chinese musician suggested that Zhou relocate to the Square, where he could earn money while practicing.Following this advice, Zhou brought his talents to this side of the Charles, and he quit his restaurant job shortly thereafter.On “good days” when it’s not raining, Zhou takes the T or the number 1 bus to Harvard and plays for two to three hours. He declined to reveal how much money he makes fiddling in the Square, although...