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Holy Cross charged into the second half with an energy that was absent from its play in the opening minutes of the game. Harvard seemed unable to respond to the Crusaders’ increased intensity on defense, and its shots simply stopped falling...
Berry was second in scoring with 16 points, and junior co-captain Christine Matera went 4-for-8 from beyond he three-point line. Lippert finished with 13, as four Harvard players scored in double digits...
...need to come out with a lot of intensity,” Markley said. “We did. We came out with a lot of energy in the first half. In the second half, it started to go back and forth, but we were able to pick ourselves up and finish strong...
...course, given how little money Democrats have left to play with, any kind of second stimulus would have to provide a big bang for the buck. House and Senate leaders are looking at combining extensions of unemployment insurance, food stamps and health insurance for recently laid off workers (known as COBRA) with infrastructure investments and money for clean-energy projects. The Obama Administration has resurrected a proposal the President campaigned on: a $3,000 tax credit per new hire for small businesses, an idea that was dropped from the first stimulus because it would've been too easy for employers...
...Another factor driving the calls for a second stimulus is that nearly 90% of the original stimulus money targeted for infrastructure projects will have been spent by May, and the Highway Trust Fund could be running a shortfall in June, says House Transportation Committee chairman James Oberstar. "[It] means, unless we do something about it, we'll start losing jobs instead of creating jobs in the construction sector," he says. For that reason, one part of a proposed jobs bill would subsidize 30 states that are unlikely to meet their annual highway commitments next year and would...