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...Overtime was short, but sweet for the Crimson. Brown quickly seized control of the ball. She dribbled down the right side of the field, cutting into the circle. Brown attempted to pass to the far side of the goal, where Fuller waited. Her pass was deflected upward, but Fuller reached for the ball, batting it out of the air and into the goal. After ten consecutive losses, the Crimson captured its first victory of the season at just 1:37 into overtime. Harvard will return to action at home next Saturday against Yale. “We?...
...economics students learn about demand curves, their own concentration is on an upward slope...
...acquiring U.S. firm couldn't obtain financing in the wake of Enron's bankruptcy. Estonia went through a brief recession and the government had to slash spending when Russia's financial crisis hit in 1998. The birthrate collapsed in the 1990s and has only now begun to turn upward again, helped by incentives including 15 months' maternity leave on full pay. And while the nation has prospered by linking its currency to the German mark in the 1990s and to the euro this decade, it is paying a price for not having a monetary policy...
...favor." It's dangerous to default in Brazil's largest city - and in its prisons. Drauzio Varella, a jail doctor, regularly examined the corpses of inmates stabbed for failing to repay debts. In 1995, a body was brought for his inspection. "He was lying face upward," says Drauzio Varella, "and when I turned him over, his head dangled. He had been almost decapitated. The guard told me this was the mark of [a gang called] the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital)." Drauzio Varella had never heard of the pcc, but, he says, "this was just...
...stiffer sentencing guidelines.” The Harvard College Libraries—along with the other affected libraries—are seeking punishment to the fullest extent of the law, Brainard said. Goldman and the British Library have gone further—they have advocated an “upward departure” from the sentencing guidelines in light of the fact that “the defendant engaged in a pattern of misconduct involving cultural heritage resources.” The maximum sentence under the current guidelines would be 10 years, in addition to financial penalties. In the memo...