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...could, if you really wanted to stretch it, go back to the 1864 advent of the national banking system and the first federal bank regulator, the Comptroller of the Currency. Or even the chartering in 1791 of the partly government-owned Bank of the United States--Alexander Hamilton's baby, which died in 1811, seven years after...
Nowhere does it stretch further than in the Casco Viejo, Panama City's quaint, compact, colonial-era Old Town. Dating from the early-16th century and surrounded on three sides by the Pacific, the Casco - as it is affectionately known by locals - was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and served as the backdrop for much of the action in the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace. The Casco's appeal is clear: grand cathedrals, fountain-filled plazas, timeworn cobblestone streets, even a bullet-scarred Presidential palace, which was attacked during the 1989 U.S. invasion...
...some work on the bench and were back without missing much of a beat.“They’re both pretty tough guys,” Housman said. “They did whatever they had to do on the sideline, and they definitely battled down the stretch for us.”—Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...
...critical in the first half, contributing six to a 15-point stretch that distanced Harvard from the Quakers. Her major point contribution came in the second half when she stepped up again to stave off Penn. Markley made two shots late in the fourth quarter that denied the Quakers any possibility for a comeback...
...Vaillancourt’s rebounded as well, with 30 of her team-leading 47 points coming in that stretch. Kessler’s only four shutouts on the season have been in the last 12 games. Harvard’s two top offensive lines are firing on all cylinders, and special teams have been a strength...