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...Crimson learned Saturday, nothing takes away the sting of a tough loss like an ugly, hard-working win. Each of Harvard’s four lines hustled, and each of them generated scoring chances to sweep the season series with Colgate for the second straight year...
...question. The merchandise the Dear Leader is hawking isn't really a dog that won't hunt, of course?it's another phony nuclear deal. And the credulous buyers aren't simpletons at a county fair?they're top Western and Asian statesmen. Given the high stakes in this sting and the sophistication of the intended victims, you'd think the game would have been shut down before now. But you'd be wrong. The latest hapless steps toward another session of "six-party talks" in the North Korean nuclear drama, in fact, suggest that diplomats are assuming their familiar...
...capital markets at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. "There's an unbelievable increase in activity," he says. "But there are just a few big deals handled by fewer banks. The dotcoms aren't coming back yet." - By William Boston Unseasonal Greetings For U.S. oil-services firm Halliburton, 2003 carried a sting in its tail. Amid recent allegations that it overcharged U.S. tax payers by $61 million for its services, Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown & Root last week lost its 10-month-old deal to supply Iraq with fuel: the Pentagon's Defense Energy Support Center will re-open contract bids early this...
...wire," where they struggle to find space of their own. Today, to fill up the downtime between patrols, Beverly surfs the Internet for information on eArmyU, the military's online college program. Beverly describes himself as "the opposite of the typical Army recruit." He loves the soft rock of Sting and devours fantasy novels in his free time. When he joined the Army in 2002, two days after his 18th birthday, he wasn't looking for combat. "I asked the Army recruiter what he could do for me in terms of college. He said it would be free," he says...
...month, agents from across the E.U. travel to the Hague to consult and trade gossip on the latest trends and intelligence. And while on-the-ground operations are still handled by local police, they often receive assistance (communications, Jeeps, night-vision goggles and even seed money to set up sting operations) from the U.S. and the E.U. The U.S. Secret Service this summer opened a regional office in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, as part of an effort to crack down on what was, until recently, the second-biggest source of fake U.S. currency in the world. "The Bulgarians have helped...