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...record in conference play, placing it second in the league. The team finished the season ranked sixth in nation and made its fifth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament. Unfortunately, the Crimson’s national championship dreams were crushed when it lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament to No. 1 ranked Wisconsin 1-0 in a bitterly fought four-overtime game. The Badgers went on to win the national championship. This season the team comes back without former co-captain Julie Chu. Last year Chu won the Patty Kazamier Award given to the best women?...

Author: By Alison E. Schumer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Seeking a Return to the Top | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...book trades heavily on familiar tropes, though John’s passages are endearingly sincere. He is the polished Northeasterner displaced into the heartland, the late-round pick desperate to prove his mettle and move up the organizational ladder, the 22-year-old who likes beer and women. The dispatches following multi-hit games are as excited as the ones following a hitless night or a benching are disappointed...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Basepaths to Bookshelves | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...race of it than expected in a special election in the strongly Democratic 5th Congressional District in Massachusetts, losing by only 6 points despite being outspent about 4 to 1. And 36-year-old Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal won the governorship of Louisiana with a majority in the first round of balloting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold Your Conventional Wisdom! | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...company is gearing up to enter the Boston-to-New York market. It says it will bring guaranteed seating, complimentary wireless Internet service, and a stop in Harvard Square to the 215-mile trip. And, of course, a higher price. Beginning Nov. 8, Vamoose will offer one daily round trip from Boston to New York—with a stop in front of Widener Gate. Additional buses will run on Fridays and Sundays, with the exact number determined by customer demand and feedback. Vamoose, a Hasidic-owned company based in New York, is selling one-way tickets for $22 over...

Author: By Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soon: A Widener-NY Express | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

Poor nations have heard that before; some are not impressed. Trade, they say, needs to be a two-way street. However much a developing country orients its economy to the outside world, it needs others to buy its goods. At the Uruguay Round of trade talks, which concluded in 1993, the developing world was promised much greater access for its products to rich markets. But the reality has been disappointing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free-Trade Hypocrites | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

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