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...just haven’t got the bounces, Yale stole one off us,’” said Donato, who earned his first collegiate coaching victory Friday night. “But our guys just wouldn’t give up, they wouldn’t quit. They really upped the pressure, I think, instead of going the other way when Yale scored...
...think the thing that has defined our team this year has been our character,” Harvard coach Tim Wheaton said. “Even today, after Connecticut got the second goal, we didn’t quit and we were still convinced we would win the game. A lot of teams would have crumbled, and a lot of teams would have quit. These girls believe in themselves, and they’ve showed it all year long...
...They are ways to clear the air, to settle the rancor for a while, to concede that the country as a whole has now decided one way or the other, however fuming you may still be inside. Lefties should lay off on the threats to move abroad; righties should quit the gloating. Neither is warranted. There's a difference between domestic opponents and foreign enemies. It's time we called a truce in the family squabble and turned again to the terrorists at our door...
...American Journal of Psychiatry, is time. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, measured the success rates of would-be quitters who received counseling plus the antidepressant nortriptyline or a placebo for either three months or a year. Compared with 18% of patients who were able to quit after short-term drug and behavioral therapy, 50% of those in the long-term group were abstinent at the end of the year. Researchers even found that 42% of the placebo takers were able to quit if they got yearlong counseling. --By Sora Song
...most bitter rivals spell trouble for the E.U.'s competition police? The software behemoth last week convinced its competitor Novell to lay down arms in exchange for a $536 million payoff; Microsoft also ended a battle with the Washington D.C.-based Computer & Communications Industry Association. (Cell-phonemaker Nokia quit the trade body in response, calling the deal "inappropriate.") In return, both parties agreed to withdraw support for the European Commission's antitrust case. Brussels charged Microsoft in March with abusing its dominant position. Without Novell and the CCIA, U.S. software firm RealNetworks remains the only major supporter of the Commission...