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...that my game is big enough and that I understand it well enough to compete at a national level.”In Nguyen’s first match, against preseason No. 11 Oleksandr Nedovyesov of Oklahoma, nerves tripped him up. By the time he had adjusted to the slick courts, he had lost the first set, 6-2.“It’s not like he blew me off the court—the points were good,” Nguyen said. “But I made a lot of errors.”Down...
...Harvard strung together solid sequences of play, but they came in spurts. Whether a result of the weather or not, momentum shifted very quickly over the course of the game. “I think we could bring more intensity to games like this,” Mann said. Slick and damp from a morning downpour, the field prevented either team from gaining the upper hand. It was difficult to play quickly on the ground as passes and touches went astray. As a result, both teams ended up resorting to the long ball. “It?...
...track conditions, mechanics will tinker with the transmission, or slide the wheels in or out along the axle to adjust a kart's handling. They can soften the ride with torsion bars, support the driver's seat to alter the load going into a corner, and switch between slick and treaded tires. Early exposure to those details "explains why people like [Hamilton] are that good," says Martin Hines, boss of the Hertfordshire-based Zip Kart Young Guns team, which backed Hamilton when he was 8 years old and now does the same for Nelson. "They've had 10 years...
...troubles at Northern Rock jar with the cachet the bank has enjoyed in recent years. Its low cost base, loyal customers and slick operation helped it outperform every other British banking stock in 2006. The lender - not yet 50 years old - "was a darling of the stock market," says Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London. "It was perceived as a good growth stock with a good model." Its approach: a limited branch network meant savings chipped in by its own customers amounted to a smaller chunk of the funds it could lend in the form of mortgages...
...Will the quality of its student body suffer as a result? Perhaps. The annual rankings are a popular shortcut among parents and students overwhelmed by the similarly slick brochures and similarly staggering price tags put out by competing colleges. But Sarah Lawrence is hoping it will continue to attract applicants who have done their homework and figured out that the rankings come from an arbitrary formula that doesn't shed much light on how well a school educates its students...