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Weaknesses: While Bemidji State’s non-conference schedule is tougher than those played by most of its CHA peers and has likely given the Beavers a taste of what to expect tomorrow, the squad’s lack of success against the nation’s premiere conferences is troubling. Tom Serratore’s bunch posted a 2-4-0 record against the CCHA—defeating Ferris State and Western Michigan—and an 0-5-1 mark versus the WCHA...
...conventional wisdom is that the price gains might slow, at least for a while, but that only tougher measures will truly strangle speculation. Andy Xie, Morgan Stanley's resident property bear, suggested that a 50% capital-gains tax for short-term buyers might do the trick. In the meantime, the bullish mood in Shanghai and other booming Chinese cities is "just phenomenal," says Anton Eilers, regional residential director at property firm Colliers International. "Putting a couple of small rocks on the track isn't going to stop the train...
...good Beijing thinks its chances are of winning a military confrontation that could pit China against the U.S. On paper, the mainland's 2.5 million-member People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.), the largest force in the world, holds an overwhelming advantage over tiny Taiwan. But the island has tougher coastal defenses than Normandy did, and China's relatively anemic navy is incapable of a full-scale invasion across the 160-km Taiwan Strait. Instead, the P.L.A. has been building up its arsenal in new ways, betting it could force Taiwan to capitulate quickly without a bloody invasion?though that option...
...flesh and F bombs. Now Congress is gearing up to give the FCC stronger weapons: far steeper fines and possibly the power to regulate decency on cable and satellite radio. (That means you, Howard.) George W. Bush last week named a new FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, who talks even tougher on decency than the departed chair, Michael Powell. To emboldened decency monitors, this is a chance to tame an out-of-control pop culture in which drunk Real World housemates have three-ways in hot tubs and shock jocks broadcast live sex acts on air. To broadcasters--and many viewers...
...Green was indeed ready for a potential onslaught, and played much tougher than in the previous encounters, clamping down on defense and continuing to be aggressive...