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...guys are playing hard,” Teevens said. “Can we play a little smarter? Yes. There’s a steep learning curve, and we’re playing the best in the league and one of the best in the country. We need to play our best, and we can’t help them with penalties or missed opportunities, and we did that throughout the game...
...very clear just how little investors [in Asia] had factored in a very steep global slowdown," says Kirby Daley, senior strategist at financial services firm Newedge Group in Hong Kong, where the Hang Seng index fell...
...didn't know Williams, but the head of her organization, Serve Afghanistan, described her as a "lovely girl, a great adventurer." Williams' death hung heavy in our thoughts as Ali and I wound our way through the steep mountain pass that is the only road east out of Kabul, alongside which lie the rusting hulks of Soviet-era tanks. Today, those are joined by the newer wreckage of a pair of burned long-haul trucks that were attacked by the Taliban just a month ago. The drivers, say the Taliban, were carrying goods for the U.S. Army...
...this happy talk that they were going to modify these loans, and I'm sure they meant it as the time. They said it was in everyone's economic interest to restructure the loans instead of foreclose because the losses on foreclosures of these loans are so steep. Then Moody's came out with a report that said less than 1% of these resetting mortgages were being modified. At that point I thought it was important to start asking questions, because I didn't know what else to do. We didn't have jurisdiction. And now we're seeing...
Memorable Claxton images include a young Charlie Parker in the Claxton home, John Coltrane in the Guggenheim Museum and Art Pepper walking up a steep hill on his release from prison. Claxton's last assignment was a cover portrait of Bob Dylan for the just-released album Tell Tale Signs...