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...long stocks hold those positions in the face of the threat from H1N1 remains to be seen. The fact that shares hit hard early had regained lost ground Monday suggests markets had earlier "responded in the time honored fashion," says Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London, namely with "a degree of overreaction...
...past, a man like him might have been happy to settle into his seat at the high table of Kenyan politics. Instead, the former journalist uncovered a far-reaching scam extending to the highest levels of his party and then publicized it, thus becoming the first senior official in Africa to blow the whistle on his own government. The story of his struggle to do so, told in Michela Wrong's new book It's Our Turn to Eat, provides a rare insider's look at corruption in a developing society. It also shines an unflattering light on the complacency...
...during Russia's five-day war with Georgia last August. Despite Russia's superior firepower and its bigger army, its ground offensive was not the overwhelming success it should have been. Moscow's military arsenal lacked anything to match Georgia's Israeli-made spy drones, according to Paul Holtom, senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Indeed, Russian troops operated with no modern surveillance or night-vision equipment at all, according to Russian Duma hearings last October. Says Vadim Kozyulin, head of the conventional-arms program at the Center for Policy Studies in Moscow: "Our army...
...open-up a boat-length lead halfway through the race. Yale finished in 6:56 with a 5.9-second margin of victory.“Our rhythm just didn’t really feel as long and strong as the rhythm we were finding in practice,” senior Sarah Moore said. “I think we gave up a little too much in the second 500 and against a crew that strong, you can’t really give them anything.”In the evening races, the Black and White adopted a different race plan...
With many of the team’s top competitors missing in action, Harvard nonetheless notched quality efforts on both sides.The Crimson women dominated the distance events, as juniors Caitlin Clifford and Stacy Carlson took the 1500- and 5000-meter, respectively, with times of 4:39.70 and 18:01.39. Senior Jan Ng and junior Brenda Cohen finished second and third in the women’s 800-meter—a race in which all five Harvard competitors finished in the top 16—and sophomore Cara Sprague earned third in the 3000-meter steeple chase.The Crimson?...