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...after the game, he was quick to give credit to the rest of Harvard’s defensive staff, which was able to make some adjustments and come up with a new scheme for foiling the Brown passing attack...
...Still, playing by the rules - annoying though that can be sometimes - wouldn't have mattered if Northern Rock customers had believed their savings were safe amid the bedlam. They didn't. Many were aware the U.K.'s industry-funded Financial Services Compensation Scheme only guaranteed deposits up to around $63,000; in the U.S., savers can expect to get back as much as $100,000 should their bank go under. The British scheme, King said, was in desperate need of an overhaul...
...half years,” Ho says. “Every time we’re sitting in a meeting, he sits right next to me, and I can just see him drawing the plays, drawing the playbook, and [he] knows exactly the route, the protection, the blocking scheme, everything. That’s one thing that I always get from him, is learning about the entire offensive scheme...
...senior running back Joe Sandberg went down with a hamstring injury in the first half. He’ll be back, but the offensive line still must prove it has recovered from the graduation of three All-Ivy picks. A strong defense returns six starters in the 5-2 scheme Penn favors, including three in the secondary, which was fourth in the Ivies last season in pass efficiency defense...
Part of the panic surely rests with the U.K.'s relatively modest deposit insurance system. Only deposits of up to around $63,000 are protected under the U.K.'s industry-funded Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Britons stashing away more than that have no legal guarantee they will see their savings again if their bank fails. Higher insurance caps - in the U.S., for instance, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation guarantees depositors up to $100,000 - would have done much to thin the lines. Keen to avoid the kind of panic triggered among Northern Rock's savers, the Treasury, the Bank...