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...Despite the impressive resume, Scrivens was outplayed by Carroll, who won first star honors on Saturday...
...team with the worst record in the Ivy League after the first period—metamorphosed during halftime. Following an unimpressive first half, Harvard returned to the court and began making shots, forcing turnovers and building up momentum against a team that was forced to fall back on its star player down the line. The Crimson ultimately came away victorious thanks to these improved efforts, an epic stuff by senior Evan Harris, and a final-second free-throw from junior Jeremy Lin.The sluggish start, the energized return, the discombobulated opponent—the comeback trend seemed to be repeating itself...
...accurate, but with a lot more naturally occurring flotsam whizzing around space than the man-made kind, Earth is always in the path of something or other. A sonic boom is perfectly consistent with anything entering our atmosphere, as is a visible fireball - hence the phenomenon of the shooting star. On any other day, the Texas sightings would be dismissed as nothing more than that. Those rocks don't reach the ground because the atmosphere dispatches them neatly, and it should have no trouble digesting the satellite junk too. One way or the other, Texans - and anyone else...
...Experts have pointed to a $30.6 billion deal between Merrill Lynch and the Lone Star group of private-equity funds as a model for the new government plan. Lone Star purchased that amount of Merrill Lynch's portfolio of asset-backed securities, and Merrill Lynch reduced Lone Star's risk by financing three-quarters of the purchase. Therefore, Lone Star had limited risk, which is similar to the way funds would have limited risk buying bad securities with government backing. But the most important part of the deal was not Lone Star's risk; it was the price. Lone Star...
...Obama appoints him, the Iranians will have no options. "The best we can hope is that Ross's negatives, in Iranian eyes, will be canceled by the fact that he is a power player," says one Iran expert. (Watch a video of Israel's rising conservative political star...