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Ingram’s hat trick of three mirror-image power-play goals was the difference as Harvard survived an emotional 4-3 victory over the Wildcats on Dec. 14. Then against Maine on Dec. 16, Ingram assisted on all three Harvard goals in a 3-2 Crimson victory...
...Thai baht (Thailand's economy is about as big as Tennessee's) sparked a financial crisis throughout Asia that, without decisive policy interventions from Washington, would have threatened the global economy and led to the loss of many American jobs. It wasn't B-52s that did the trick then, and if we are to head off a crisis of confidence throughout Latin America--one that could eventually spread to Mexico, which exports its economic woes to the U.S. in the form of migrants--it won't be daisy cutters that...
...kept the housing market bustling and homeowners feeling a reserve of wealth. With long-term rates surging lately, homeowners are switching to hybrid mortgages that offer a fixed rate for the first few years and then adjust every year after that, and are still finding great terms. The trick now is to get businesses investing again before homeowners exhaust what they're willing to spend of their housing wealth...
...convert his enhanced stature into something solid? In the Afghan war, the limits of having no divisions - or more accurately, just a few cruise missiles and some special forces - are beginning to undercut the authority he projects, which in many ways is a confidence trick born of his own forceful personality and fast footwork. His war aims are admirably grand - reviving the Middle East peace process, tackling "grinding poverty and pandemic disease" in Africa, fortifying the U.N. and rebuilding Afghanistan - but delivering any of them depends on Bush, who is narrowly focused on getting al-Qaeda and defending the homeland...
...convert his enhanced stature into something solid? In the Afghan war, the limits of having no divisions?or more accurately, just a few cruise missiles and some special forces?are beginning to undercut the authority he projects, which in many ways is a confidence trick born of his own forceful personality and fast footwork. His war aims are admirably grand?reviving the Middle East peace process, tackling "grinding poverty and pandemic disease" in Africa, fortifying the U.N. and rebuilding Afghanistan?but delivering any of them depends on Bush, who is narrowly focused on getting al-Qaeda and defending the homeland...