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...Berg believes the burden of proof has risen for the government. "It gives [the defense] hope because their entire defense is that (a) they were unaware of any criminal behavior, and (b) the company really wasn't in financial trouble. Now the jury is going to have to believe they knew of all the elements of the crimes alleged against them," says Berg...
When Italian manufacturers ran into competitive problems in the past, there used to be an easy fix: currency devaluation, which made Italian exports cheaper relative to those of other countries. But that solution is no longer available, because Italy swapped the lira for the euro, which has risen against most other currencies, including the dollar. "We used to say small is beautiful, but that's no longer true," says Adalberto Valduga, president of the regional chamber of commerce in nearby Udine, the provincial capital. While the strong euro is penalizing firms, he says the real challenge is a more fundamental...
...three years, members of the Harvard women’s hockey team’s Class of 2006 played integral parts on units that reached the NCAA finals. This season, the trio—Carrie Schroyer, Jennifer Raimondi, and Ali Boe—has risen to fill leadership positions, serving as the squad’s captain, its best offensive player, and its best defensive player, respectively. Friday night, all three wrapped up their college careers, turning in typically solid performances in a 3-1 loss to top-seeded New Hampshire in the national quarterfinals. Raimondi assisted on the team?...
...photographers, three print reporters and three Iraqi government officials right into the middle of Operation Swarmer. Iraqi soldiers in newly painted humvees, green and red Iraqi flags stenciled on the tailgates, had just finished searching the farm populated by a half-dozen skinny cows and a woman kneading freshly risen dough and slapping it to the walls of a mud oven...
...blogosphere, the first steps were taken by individual Harvard organizations.Greg M. Schmidt ’06, former president of the Harvard Democrats, started a blog before the 2004-2005 UC presidential election that received 5,000 hits per day during the election. Two of these Harvard-specific blogs have risen to the top of the heap over the past year. Cambridge Common, created in April 2005, has seven main contributors who regularly post with generally-liberal commentary on campus issues from Larry Summers to the Mission Hill After-School Program.Team Zebra—which began as a chronicle...