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...tied for 20th in his second tournament appearance. Turning in a very respectable 223 (70-76-77), Pollak delivered a solid performance despite his relative inexperience. Rounding out the Harvard contingent, Mayer tied for 29th place, 78-73-75, senior John Christensen shot 77-76-77, and captain Michael Shore shot 74-78-84. Harvard was one of two teams to bring players to play as individuals. Four traveled with the team and played the course, though their scores would not count for the Crimson total. “We took nine overall, five as part of the team...
...close to the beautiful lake just a few minutes walk from our bungalows, because crocodiles had snapped up and devoured several people over the last several months. When we took a boat trip on the lake late one afternoon, we got to see crocodiles sunning themselves on the shore, including one specimen more than 12 ft. long - most of it jaws. Cuteness is a nice evolutionary trait, but when it comes to long-term survival, you can't beat fear...
...environmental impact of undersea wreckage can't always be seen easily from the shore. Helton says it would help if owners of small fishing boats and jet skis as well as giant ore ships and oceangoing freighters could keep in mind that "when a vessel is lost, it's not gone...
...value in a matter of hours. At that point the market was down almost 60% for the year, its lowest level since early 2006, although it has since been boosted by measures taken by the Russian central bank and the Kremlin. Those measures, however, weren't enough to shore up the nation's largest investment bank, Renaissance Capital, which on Sept. 21 sold a 50% stake to the Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov for $500 million. Just over a month ago, Forbes magazine, in a profile of Renaissance and its New Zealand - born chief executive, Stephen Jennings, reckoned the same stake...
...Minister at the time. "There was the same anxiety and the same need for confidence." He's one of a number of Swedish financial types who have been shuttling in and out of Washington and New York in recent months with a compelling message: there is a way to shore up ailing financial institutions without saddling taxpayers with the entire bill...