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...Harvard field hockey team dropped a pair of games last weekend in its final tune-up before the start of Ivy League play. The Crimson played Providence on Friday and was shut out, 4-0, at the Friar Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex in Providence, R.I. On Saturday, the team fared better but lost a heartbreaker to UMass. The game, which took place at Garber Field in Amherst, Mass, lasted two overtimes, but the Minutewomen ultimately prevailed on a goal from midfielder Erin Parker. “We faced some really tough competition this weekend,” co-captain...
Treasury agreed to backstop the companies to the tune of $100 billion each, in exchange for an ownership stake that will be determined by just how much money taxpayers have to pony up. The companies are to be operated as going concerns by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), their regulator. The FHFA has already told the CEOs to go (albeit with lush severance packages), but most other executives are being asked to stay. The companies' shares continue to trade, although their market value dropped more than 80% the day after the takeover was announced...
...researchers then compared prescribing behavior of French-speaking Quebec residents, who only tune in to American channels five percent of the time, with those living in English-speaking Canada, who are estimated to spend about 30 percent of their time in front of the television watching American shows...
Like most HBO series, vampire drama True Blood (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.) has a fantastic title sequence. To the tune of Jace Everett's dark country single Bad Things, images of death, lust and religious frenzy flash by. A woman writhes in black lingerie ... a preacher lays on hands ... a Venus flytrap snaps shut on a frog. It's a fever dream of Eros wrestling Thanatos in the middle of a tent revival. Damn! I think. I want to see the show those titles...
...Whenever Bardem or Cruz are on screen, VCB finds its heart. It sees them as fully in tune with their feelings: totally willing, and why not?, to act on impulses they've learned to trust. The Americans are children by comparison, a little stiff, so conditioned to overanalyzing every attraction that they would lose the moment - if only there weren't a Don Juan Antonio to send seismic shivers up their consciences...