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...shot in the final 10 minutes. Stone stopped seven shots in total to earn her second shutout of the season. “We were really excited to open up with the Ivy League today,” Stone said. “I thought we had a pretty strong showing. It’s great to see the freshman step up—it helps out.” —Staff writer Timothy J. Walsh can be reached at twalsh@fas.harvard.edu...
...They came with a really good attitude—they’ve all shown signs of being able to step up the level of their game.” Faced with an exhausting combination of doubles and singles action over three days, Harvard responded with a series of strong performances. “We got a lot of matches in. The guys showed a lot of mental toughness, playing a lot of tennis over three days,” co-captain Chris Clayton said. “I was happy with the way everybody performed, especially under pressure...
...recently manufactured state. Iran is a country that goes back not just centuries but millennia. In Iran you have patriotism that's distinct from nationalism, which is what you find in most of the rest of the Muslim world. This sense of Iranian identity is very strong and very deep-rooted, and in opposing this we have to be careful not to give the present rulers of Iran a gift of something that they don't personally enjoy - the support of Iranian patriotism...
...same time, Austrians are among the most euro-skeptic populations on the Continent. Just 28%, in a recent survey, said that they had a positive view of the E.U., a lower percentage even than in Britain. The sanctions imposed on Austria by the E.U. after Haider's strong showing in 1999 seem to have triggered an abiding sense of spite towards Brussels among large swaths of the population...
...dangerous losses on property and mortgages that are devastating their U.S. counterparts. To some, like Hugh Young, managing director at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia in Singapore, the sell-off is providing a buying opportunity. Young's been trolling the markets for solid blue chips and conservative banks with strong balance sheets. "Now's the time to be buying - slowly," he says. "If people are selling because they need the cash, that's what we like...