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...already developed a very soft spot in my heart for the Crimson sailing team. They always call me back, even when I don’t start my story until two hours before the deadline. Women’s captain Megan Watson has patiently explained pretty much every basic essential about sailing to me (and I’m sure to every other person who’s ever covered the sport). Freshmen Emily Lambert and Annie DeAngelo were probably my two most enthusiastic interviewees of all time when I wrote a feature on them earlier this fall...
...government. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has just called for another $100 billion to bail out major companies, which can expect to jump ahead of the regions in the line for government assistance. If the federal government declines to bail out the regions, however, the consequence could be the "soft" disintegration of the Russian Federation, says one savvy business executive - the regions could begin to withhold some of the taxes they collect on Moscow's behalf. Already, some regions in Russia's far east are more integrated into the Chinese economy than into the Russian...
...When she first approaches someone, her voice gets soft in a way that makes it seem like she is trying to establish a connection. New Hampshire voters, she realizes, tend to be accustomed to presidential politics on account of the state’s first-in-the-nation primary status...
...quarter revised upward, while 424 companies are facing declines. "That's telling me that earnings are going over a cliff," says Dirk van Dijk, director of research for Chicago-based Zacks Investment Research, which compiles the earnings forecasts of Wall Street analysts. "Estimates were way too high given the soft economy, and analysts are diligently whacking at them with a machete...
...like clothing. Here’s the story: the wife waits on the shore as her gnarled fisherman husband is eaten by a spiny fish after the two duel in a maelstrom (conveyed by hands with cut-out lighting bolts attached). All the while, Feist gasps out soft narrative lyrics interspersed with an eerie harmony. After her husband is swallowed, the wife dons a retro-science fiction swim apparatus to search for him. Although the ending is ambiguous, the candle that has lit the scene is blown out in its final moments, so I wouldn’t hold...