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...need to tighten up and stay loose but try to improve on what we know how to do," said tri-captain Jen Vogt-Lowell. "Our bats came out ready to swing [today]. Looking ahead to the weekend we have to work on making sure we have solid defense. Our bats are working, but we need to back up our bats in the field...
...struggling service station in Alabama sued opec for conspiring to fix the price of oil - and won. Didn't anyone tell them that opec was created, and openly exists, for that very reason? The ruling is virtually unenforceable. Off the Menu When investment banks tell employees to tighten their belts, it doesn't mean taking a vow of poverty. Staff at Credit Suisse First Boston have been asked to keep celebratory dinners below $10,000, while Goldman Sachs has cut back on free fruit, first-class travel and taxis home. Cold Turkey When a country's going through a financial...
ZIMBABWE Press Crackdown The Zimbabwe government sacked the editors of two state-controlled newspapers and rejected a Commonwealth plan to send a delegation to Harare, as President Robert Mugabe seeks to tighten his grip ahead of elections next year. The chairman of Zimpapers, the government-controlled company that publishes the Herald and Sunday Mail, was dismissed two weeks ago; earlier this year a bomb destroyed the printing press of the opposition Daily News. U.K. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook warned that Zimabwe risked isolation from the Commonwealth by refusing to cooperate with the proposed ministerial visit...
...Presumably, though, there's considerable debate over how to ease sanctions, and which sanctions to maintain. The U.S. has been pushing recently for modifications to the sanctions regime designed to tighten controls on access to military equipment, while lifting most economic sanctions. Will this approach win Arab support...
...four of the nation's top five scorers between Harvard's duo of co-captain Jennifer Botterill and senior winger Tammy Shewchuk and Duluth's sophomore pair of Maria Rooth and Hanne Sikio. The game has the potential to turn into a shootout provided that the teams do not tighten...