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...plays for the Canadian National team and is one of the Big Green’s most dangerous scorers—got the puck at the top of the offensive zone while the three Harvard defenders and one Dartmouth skater were screening Boe’s vision. With a rapid flick of the stick, Piper sent a blazing slapshot at the lower corner of the net. Boe saw it at the last minute and quickly flipped out her left leg to cover the entire side of the goal and kick the shot aside...
...troubles of corporate Japan are a function of a long period of economic stagnation. During the boom years of the 1970s and '80s, Japan Inc.'s single-minded focus on engineering and process development-not to mention a resistance to foreign ideas-were hallmarks of the country's rapid economic progress and a source of national pride. But when the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japan was gripped by a crisis of confidence, as if its success in the past loomed over its present travails like Mount Fuji. This crisis is centered in the commercial realm...
...office filled with books on archaeology and photos documenting more than 30 years’ worth of expeditions, Lamberg-Karlovsky discussed his interest in the “commercial and political relations that connected the earliest urban centers,” a passion fueled by the discovery of the rapid spread of written language in the region and the manufacture of carved stone vessels which were used for international trade...
Republicans on Capitol Hill have lost no time translating their electoral success into rapid advances on some of their favorite legislative packages, including changes to the bankruptcy laws and curbs on lawsuits against corporations. They?re also looking at cutting Medicaid, and changing Senate rules to prevent Democrats from filibustering President Bush?s judicial nominees. Clearly, they think they have the Democrats...
...talk, which was sponsored by the Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs at KSG, Shalom said the Middle East and Arab nations are undergoing rapid changes...