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...landed right in the hands of senior Andrew Pusar. After another miss and another offensive board, the ball was kicked out to Housman, who held the ball, staring at the clock. He waited until there were just under 20 seconds left on the shot clock, then faked right, spun left, and cut to the corner.The Quakers expected a drive, but Housman stopped and pulled back for a jumper that rattled around and fell in the net, as he careened to the floor.With Lin injured, Housman knew he had to step up, and with shots like that...
...Yahoo! (YHOO) and Time Warner were downgraded by a Wall St. analyst yesterday. His reason for cutting Time Warner is that, once its cable systems have been spun-out to shareholders, its crown jewels which include Time Inc, AOL, and networks such as CNN were not worth the multiple at which the company trades. The essence of his argument is that content, even the best content, is losing its value...
...which is close to the point of extinction. The company's core handset business has been flailing for close to two years. One CEO was fired over a year ago, but now the firm has two CEOs. One of them was to run the handset businesses after it was spun-off from the main company. That process has been delayed and may never happen. Motorola lost $3.6 billion in the fourth quarter of last year. For that quarter, revenue from the company's handset unit dropped by over half Several members of the Motorola board have run other huge firms...
...Brine poked the puck past BU goaltender Allyse Wilcox to make the score 3-0.Just over two minutes later, Brine did it again, this time with a little help from her linemates.Vaillancourt brought the puck up the ice and made a nice pass to sophomore Katharine Chute as she spun to avoid a defender. Chute crossed the puck to Brine, who caught Wilcox out of position and dumped the puck into the wide-open right side of the net.All told, Harvard’s first line contributed 11 of the team’s 20 points.“It just...
While some Israeli political leaders have spun this episode as a decisive showdown, Israel knows that its military offensive is unlikely to end Hamas' political control of Gaza or even to eliminate the movement's capacity to fire rockets into Israel. Israel's objective is to force Hamas to stop all attacks on Israel from Gaza. Or, to put it another way, to restore the cease-fire Hamas abandoned on Dec. 19, on terms more acceptable to Israel. Polls taken on the first day of the bombing showed that while 81% of Israelis supported the military campaign, only 6% believed...