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...mechanism for making it happen was my original idea. I guess I would say it was a reasonably straight-forward idea, the idea of person to person betting - there's a lot of person to person stuff going on - and I guess it was fairly easy for anyone to identify that if you could create a person to person business on the web, and you could crack that particular space, you had a big hit on your hands. But I think it was visualizing how it would work, rather than that the space existed, that was the innovative part...
...sluggish, Harvard found itself down 4-3.Worse, senior co-captain Lauren Snyder suffered a broken finger early on that would sideline her for the rest of the weekend.The offense finally awoke in the second period as the Crimson unleashed its diverse attack on the unsuspecting Lady Knights, rattling off nine straight goals as nine different players scorched the opponent’s net. Harvard would finish on a 10-1 run to end the game.Five Crimson scorers tallied two goals apiece: Snyder, MacLaughlin, Mueller, senior Cassandra Forsyth and sophomore Kathryn Bilder.—Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz...
...team.“This is my first Ivy championship, and it feels glorious,” co-captain Dan Nguyen said.HARVARD 7, BROWN 0Determination was the name of the game for Harvard on Sunday, and the team was well-rewarded for its efforts, winning every singles match in straight sets after handily taking the doubles set.“We’ve realized in the past few matches that whoever gets the doubles point gets a huge momentum boost,” Nguyen said, “so we made it a point to come out with intensity...
...Even in Syria, however, rug buying can be intimidating for the beginner. Innumerable variations of region, style and quality make establishing the value of any particular rug daunting. And then there's the relentless bazaar bargaining that can turn any transaction a microcosmic "clash of cultures" between in which straight-forward, naïve Westerners imagine themselves being conned by wily, opaque "Orientals...
...America were made known, a near mob of conservative intellectuals sought to place his "élitism" in proper historical context. George Will located Obama securely in Adlai Stevenson's wine cellar, representing the effete strand of liberalism that corrupted F.D.R.'s party of the working people. William Kristol went straight for the main chance, positing Obama as a direct descendant of - yes - Karl Marx, who famously proclaimed religion to be the "opiate" of the masses. As the Marx meme fluttered across Fox News, you could almost hear the vast sigh of relief: Obama's gaffe had put Republican propagandists back...