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...with 4:20 left. The Crimson capped its strong run with some more playmaking from Lin. With the shot clock running down, he drove and kicked to Pusar, who buried a three from the corner, making it 64-53 with 2:17 left. Santa Clara kept at it, but solid free throw shooting by the home team kept it at least a two-possession contest to the end. In the first half, Harvard came out smoking and led by double figures for most of the half before the Broncos rallied to cut the deficit to two at the break...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Team Effort Paces Men's Hoops Win | 1/3/2009 | See Source »

...generals were the geniuses doing the sophisticated, proprietary trading stuff that brought such marvelous returns over the last 40 years. And, in our case, the accounting firm of Halpern & Mantovani, CPA, in Encino, Calif., Chais' chief bean counter, pumped out the quarterly statements as if it were all rock solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Bernie Madoff? Many Investors Didn't Ask | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...October was bleak: the dealership sold only 30 cars for the month compared with a normal 15-18 a week. But December's numbers are solid, he said, thanks in part to his deep roots in the community and solid ties to bankers. Compared to many dealers, Overland Park Jeep Dodge hasn't been troubled by lack of consumer credit. All of his 70 employees have safe jobs, Thompson declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Dodges in a Downturn: Upbeat in Kansas | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...Franklin J. Schaffner, William Friedkin) or be nominated for them (John Frankenheimer, Norman Jewison, Arthur Penn, Arthur Hiller, Robert Altman). Directing scripts by such comers as Gore Vidal, Reginald Rose and Horton Foote, he learned a reverence for the word and for the midcentury liberalism it embodied and ratified. Solid, non-Communist, arguably paternalistic, this was a liberalism more social than political. A better word would be humanism. That was the tone and worldview that Mulligan's best films would radiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mockingbird Director Robert Mulligan Dies at 83 | 12/21/2008 | See Source »

...executive director of HCWH. In 1997, the last year for which data is available, according to the EPA, the health-care sector was the country's fourth largest source of mercury emissions, and mercury fever thermometers alone accounted for about 17 tons of mercury deposited yearly in solid waste landfills. Despite the lack of hard data, industry watchers estimate that the phase-out of mercury-based instruments has greatly reduced that burden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Hospitals Greener — and Patients Healthier | 12/20/2008 | See Source »

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