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...Monoline bond insurance companies, such as MBIA and Ambac Financial Group Inc., have been hit the hardest as they scramble to raise capital to cover possible defaults and to stave off a downgrade from the ratings agencies. It was this group's foray out of its traditional municipal bonds and into mortgage-backed securities that caused the turmoil. A rating downgrade of the monoline companies could be devastating for banks and others who bought insurance protection from them to cover their corporate bond exposure...
Harvard women’s lacrosse (4-1) got out to an early lead against Quinnipiac (2-3), then shifted gears to stave off a Bobcat rally in the second half of yesterday’s match at Quinnipiac Lacrosse Turf Field and secure a 13-10 victory. A trio of hat tricks from junior Kaitlin Martin, sophomore Sara Flood, and freshman Jess Halpern led the charge. “We always talk about how great it is to go ahead at the start,” co-captain Lauren Bobzin said. “[Martin, Flood, and Halpern] contributed...
...Chewang Norphel has gone beyond prayer. The 73-year-old civil engineer has come up with a solution that won't exactly save the ancient glaciers, but it could stave off a looming irrigation crisis. Norphel has created artificial glaciers, frozen pools of glacier run-off perched above the farmers' fields, which thaw just in time for the start of growing season in April - two months before water from the distant natural glaciers is expected to arrive. The slanted pools melt into irrigation channels over the next six weeks, watering crops for villages of roughly 500 families...
...brothers, as she called them, in defense of the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa madrasah complex that had been the conservative heartbeat of Pakistan's capital for decades. Draped in a black hijab that showed only her eyes, she rushed out of the seminary gate, clutching a bamboo stave and determined to do her part in the battle for God. She returned a few minutes later, dejected. That fight, the men said, was not for her. It was hard to tell if her tears sprang from frustration, or if they were caused by the stinging gas. "I am ready...
...black person who opposed the first black President," Cobb says. "If Hillary Clinton wins the nomination and then loses in November, then they will be in the position of having picked the wrong horse in the race. If Clinton wins the primaries and in November, then it will stave off the inevitable, that there will be a political cost for supporting her. Some people in the black community are looking at the black politicians who represent them right now and wondering whether they could lose their seat in Congress. The fact that that's on the table right...