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...Conservative legislators and mayoral candidates, however, pointed out that business owners most affected by the Attali report are historically stalwart UMP voters, and likely to join the rising tide of displeasure at the municipal polls next month. That and other challenges appear to have caused Sarkozy to blink at long last. On Wednesday, leaders of protesting taxi drivers were called to the Elysée and assured the deregulation plans had been shelved. And despite Sarkozy's avowal in December that state "coffers are empty," the presidency also announced new handouts for retirees receiving minimal pensions - a demographic pollsters count...
...can’t rally against him like you used to,” Clayton’s roommate and teammate, junior Sasha Ermakov, said. “He’ll jump all over a short ball.” In years past, Clayton was known as a stalwart defender, capable of getting any shot back over the net and extending rallies into painful long-distance sprints for his opponents. But this tendency came at the price of hiding Clayton’s strong underlying game. According to Rueb, when Harvard tennis great James Blake...
Thanks to the stalwart play of sophomore goaltender Kyle Richter, the Harvard men’s hockey team is over .500 for the first time since the 2005-06 season. After allowing two goals in a loss to then-No. 11 Clarkson and one goal in a win over then-No. 16 St. Lawrence last weekend, Richter stopped all 28 shots that he faced in leading the Crimson to a 3-0 win in its home opener against No. 16 Rensselaer (6-3-2, 1-1-2 ECAC). “From the net on out, I thought...
...While Vaillancourt leads Harvard’s offensive attack, Cahow is the stalwart of the Crimson defense. She was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy and All-ECAC selection last season and cannot hide her excitement about getting back onto...
...Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass.“Wheeler, Buesser, and [Coskren] are very mature players,” Ryabkina says. “Sometimes you play with them and realize [you] just can’t cut through them.”From senior tri-captain and defensive stalwart Cahow’s perspective, this freshman class is also special in its smooth transition from high school to the college ranks.“It depends on the year how new players are going to adjust into the program, and it has been seamless with this group of players...