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...visiting school, allowing those Harvard athletes who will not be traveling to Princeton, N.J. to race in the Ivy Championships this coming weekend a chance to swim in a championship-style meet. “[The ECAC meet] really gives everybody a chance to put on a fast swim suit and go at it and show how all the hard work pays off,” junior Rick McKellar said. Senior Mike Lin, who had personal-best times in each of his races for the contest, echoed McKellar’s sentiment. “The opportunity to compete...
...Several domestic manufacturers are developing small trucks and minivans to suit the government program, while expanding sales and service networks into the countryside. This year Chang'an, manufacturer of China's leading minivan, plans to add 1,000 sales and service outlets to its existing 1,260. But its unclear if poor rural consumers can be convinced to spend. "Where's the money?" says Dunne. "The Chinese market has proven pretty stubbornly resistant" to efforts to get rural Chinese to open their wallets...
...Poem,” the narrator observes, “She did hover on my page / A bit more than the others… Then on to the street / And with perfect aim / Right into / the trash.” It does not seem so hard to follow suit. Here, as in many of his other poems, Holder’s choice of unusual material actually turns out to be a strength, but his imagery lacks clarity. He has reduced his poetry to little more than people watching, and in the wake of this realization, it’s natural...
...proving to be extremely vulnerable to a synchronized global slowdown. Among the tigers, overseas trade is shrinking with frightening speed: Taiwan's exports in January plunged 44% from the same month a year earlier, while Singapore's fell 35% and South Korea's 33%. Overall economic growth is following suit. In the fourth quarter of 2008, Taiwan's GDP contracted 8.4% from the same period a year earlier, the worst quarter on record. South Korea's GDP shrunk 3.4% in the fourth quarter, Singapore's fell 3.7% and Hong Kong's dipped 2.5%. Eric Fishwick, head of economic research...
...hope is that [this suit] will create change,” Tuli said. “I risked my career and my reputation...