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...effort to adopt a new strategy of play and find a balance within. “Instead of a traditional 4-4-2, we are using a 4-3-3, keeping [junior forward] Andre [Akpan] and me up front and [senior midfielder] John Stamatis further forward than usual,” Fucito said. The team will use four defenders, three midfielders, and three forwards, rather than the standard four defenders, four midfielders, and two forwards. The new strategy puts more emphasis on offense by keeping an additional man forward at the expense of a midfielder. Although the new strategy...
...lesser extent, Biden - but produced no sound-bite moment and was unable to rattle her opponent. Most dramatically, she charged that the Democratic ticket wants to wave a "white flag of surrender" in Iraq. Firmly hit her campaign's main themes (Obama equals higher taxes and Washington business as usual). Ably brandished the opposition research on Obama's record and promises...
...Some Harvard students watching the speech—at least those sitting around me—sneered that Rogoff didn’t realize that for Harvard students accustomed to jobs at the upper echelon of finance, the usual recruiting suspects remain alive, if not quite well. Indeed, of the behemoths that have gone under in the past months, only Lehman Brothers was a major recruiter at Harvard. The most sought-after financial recruiters—namely Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Citigroup—have survived the recent turmoil and have shown their health by buying up the dismembered...
...annual Office of Career Services Career Forum included the usual big names: the CIA, Abercrombie & Fitch, NASA, and... Lehman Brothers?... Oh, wait. While many students and recruiters were out in full force at Gordon Track last Friday, lots of the big finance companies failed to make an appearance at the Office of Career Services Career Forum. But that’s not to say that the rockin’ fair was full of doom and gloom. One company that seemed determined to keep the good times coming, despite the plunging economy, was Facebook. “Everyone is very smart...
...usual propaganda,” she said. “A lot of people are not really specialists in the region, so it flies if he spins questions around...