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...against UMass provided the high point of the season for the Crimson. “There were horrible field conditions and everyone was exhausted, but we somehow managed to pull out a victory on opponents’ territory,” said Akpan, whose strike in the 102nd minute sent Harvard into the second round.The season ended with a 2-1 loss to No. 8 South Florida, with the Crimson pushing the powerhouse Bulls to the brink. “I thought we were brilliant,” Clark said after the match.Akpan led the team with 10 goals...
...some risk we will run out of storage space in the next four to six weeks," says Simon Wardell, director of global oil at IHS Global Insight, an energy-forecasting company in London. To oil-rich countries that possibility evokes grim memories of 1998, when the Asian economic crisis sent demand plummeting, driving world oil prices down to $10 a barrel. "If we run out of storage it could prompt a collapse in the price," says Wardell. Oil producers might then choose to dramatically cut output in order to run down the surplus. (See pictures from Azerbaijan's oil boom...
...Whatever deal eventually emerges, experts warn that Opel's future is anything but rosy in a car industry beset by a massive erosion of demand. The Financial Times reported that the offer document GM sent out to bidders last month predicted a loss before tax and interest payments of more than $3 billion at its European businesses this year. (See pictures...
...summer of 2006, in the immediate aftermath of North Korea's unexpected long-range missile launch, the Chinese government quietly sent a senior envoy, former foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan, to Pyongyang to express Beijing's displeasure. Tang cooled his heels for a couple of days, before finally meeting - briefly, diplomatic sources have said - with leader Kim Jong Il. Just three months later, in October 2006, North Korea again defied the world and tested a nuclear bomb for the first time...
...Many Germans are still determined to confront their past, and thousands have tried to get access to the files kept on them by the Stasi. According to the Birthler Agency, 87,000 applications to examine the files were submitted in 2008, fewer than the 100,000 applications that were sent in 2007. But this year's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has sparked renewed interest and heightened demand. "It's important that the Stasi files are open and there is access for victims, researchers, historians and Germans to learn about their personal histories," says Altendorf. "Many...