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Unfortunately for the home team, it could not hold up in overtime. The defeat marks the Crimson’s fourth straight loss and seventh in the team’s last eight games. But after being outscored 23-4 in the squad’s previous three matches, last night’s overtime loss signaled an improvement...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Comes Up Short in Solid Performance | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...then because that’s kind of heteronormative, we also have a song ‘I Don’t Wanna Be a Straight Girl...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rough, Yet Personal, Sport | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...very, very open community,” she says, contrasting her experience with other teams where locker room chatter revolved around guys. “Conversations are gender-neutral,” she says. Poteat points out that the majority of Radcliffe’s current team is straight, adding, “No matter what the make up of the team is sexuality-wise, it still maintains that very open community...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rough, Yet Personal, Sport | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

Himler shouldered the bulk of the skipper duties in the B division, pairing with crews senior Michelle Konstadt and sophomore Annie DeAngelo en route to a fourth-place finish. After finishing last in the second race of the competition, Himler and Konstadt adjusted to the conditions, rattling off three straight victories in the fourth through sixth races...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Qualifies for ACCs | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...been cheered for its effectiveness. Government stimulus spending and loose credit powered the country's economy to an 8.9% growth rate in the third quarter, and the most recent Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI), a widely watched gauge of economic sentiment released on Oct. 30, rose for the eighth straight month. It now shows "sustained expansion in industrial activity," says Jing Ulrich, managing director at JPMorgan in Hong Kong. At the same time, the U.S.-China economic relationship is not as lopsided as it was a year ago, at least by some measures. The U.S. savings rate has increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could China's Economic Policies Trigger Another Crisis? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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