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Dartmouth capitalized on two Harvard errors and a walk to shrink the Crimson’s lead to 9-7 in the top of the seventh, but Harvard quickly gained back an unearned run. The Crimson secured its position in the eighth when Way and sophomore Jeff Reynolds each hit two-run singles, and another score off a wild pitch brought the final count...
...That may be true, and hawks and doves in Washington agree there's little downside to the summit itself. But even the most idealistic internationalists know that the number of nuclear-armed states is likely to grow rather than shrink in coming years, weakening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and increasing the production of dangerous materials around the globe. So, a more accurate definition of the summit's purpose may be that it is, at best, a small step toward slowing the decline of international cooperation on nuclear issues. (See "Obama's Nuclear Strategy: What's Different...
...admit that he probably doesn't need it. Until he proves otherwise, Woods is still the mentally toughest athlete on the planet. "He wrote the book that we're all using," says Gio Valiante, author of Fearless Golf: Conquering the Mental Game, who is currently acting as golf shrink for Camilo Villegas, one of the best young players on the PGA Tour. "He's got this belief system that is perfectly constructed for adversity...
...managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is a potential rival in France's 2012 presidential election.) Others, like French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, have criticized Germany for making impossible demands on Athens by saying that E.U. support is only conceivable if Greece accepts draconian austerity measures that will shrink its economy further and make it more difficult to pay off its debts...
...fall back on. Its export markets are still weak and its capacity to increase infrastructure spending again, after the massive increases of the past two years, is limited. With the rest of the world still trying to regain its economic footing, the authorities in Beijing are hoping they can shrink a bubble without bursting it entirely. Delicate business, that. And it's not just the Chinese homeowner who should be praying that they can pull...