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...Kucharczyk ran over to the scorer’s table, a Crimson possession began to formulate and a coaching assistant yelled at Kucharczyk to remain on the field. Kucharczyk then sprinted toward the goal where Bannon had stolen the ball in front of the net. After Bannon’s shot was batted away by Nagengast, Kucharczyk collected the rebound and put away the score...
Moderate bias also grows from a related phenomenon: status-quo bias. Journalists, like anyone, have a built-in bias toward believing that what was true yesterday will be true tomorrow. Establishment news outlets grow cozy and comfortable with other establishments. One reason some journalists insufficiently questioned the run-up to the Iraq war and underestimated the housing bubble was that they listened to their usual, credentialed sources - and the history of the past decade is the history of the experts being wrong. (See TIME's photo-essay "A Photographer's Personal Journey Through...
...everything into the theater," an officer said on condition of anonymity. "It's 45 days from the U.S. to Pakistan [by sea], and then another two weeks over land into Afghanistan." Some military officers say privately that a quick, forceful decision creates its own momentum toward success, while a dragged-out process makes troops, allies, Congress and the U.S. public question U.S. resolve. ("Honestly, in Europe there is not great enthusiasm for sending more troops to Afghanistan," European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said...
...just indiscriminate bank lending that has retarded moves toward rebalancing. Outright government subsidies to businesses have increased in the past 12 months. Everything from bicycle makers to textile producers to chemical companies have seen their export subsidies rise because their markets worldwide were shriveling, and a panicky Beijing was spooked by the prospect of massive unemployment if factories shut down. "By transferring wealth from households to boost the profitability of producers, China's ability to grow consumption in line with growth of the nation's GDP is severely hampered," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University's Guanghua...
...Israel's "No, but ..." answer to the U.S. demand that Israel halt all construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. At least Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was offering to restrain settlement activity, Clinton said, but Arab leaders, whom Obama had hoped would make reciprocal gestures toward normalization of ties with Israel, were not buying. For Arab League secretary Amr Moussa, Clinton's message offered a grim outlook for the Administration's peace efforts: "I still wait until we have our meetings and decide what we are going to do," Moussa reportedly said on Monday in Morocco, where...