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...score and an assist. Husky captain Whitney Michele led all scorers with eight points in the loss, tallying five goals and three helpers.Coming off a disappointing performance Saturday in its Ivy opener, a 12-8 loss at Brown, Harvard was well aware that it needed to make a vast improvement, especially in the game’s first minutes.“Against Brown, we started really slowly…We were down 7-1, and it took us a while to get into our rhythm and play our game,” Halpern said. “We started...
...sense that we're moving towards a consensus in America that global warming is real, and that we need to take action? It's complex. I think that the vast majority of the scientific community - and much of the public - believes that it is real. It's a matter of consequence, how we're going to deal with this. There are a lot of complex parts. We haven't arrived at a common intersection of those parts yet, but that's not surprising given the nature of the issue we are dealing with. (See pictures of the world's most...
Here are two possibilities: either the vast majority of all swaps - not just AIG's - are held by investment banks, or a significant portion is held by other financial institutions like hedge funds. Suppose all swaps are held by banks. Since swaps are a zero-sum game, the banking industry as a whole cannot lose money on swaps. Then there is no need for a bailout. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...ARENA, too, has come a long way since the 1980s, when its founder, Roberto d'Aubuisson, sponsored death squads that terrorized the nation and assassinated its leading cleric, Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, an outspoken champion of El Salvador's vast poor. But it is still widely regarded as the party of the wealthy, right-wing landed oligarchy targeted by the FMLN in the civil war, and under its tenure, the poor still feel marginalized. That's why the FMLN claimed 35 of 84 seats in January's national assembly elections and won Sunday's presidential poll...
...comparisons with Musharraf's authoritarian tactics sharpened when, on Friday evening, two of Pakistan's lively TV news channels went off the air across vast swath of the country. Aaj TV's broadcasts were limited by cable operators, as Geo News, the most popular news channel, disappeared altogether in major cities. The channel's management accused Zardari of directly ordering the shutdown - charges that the President's spokesmen strenuously deny. "At around 7 p.m., we began receiving reports that people were not able to receive Geo on their television sets," says Azhar Abbas, director of Geo News. "After inquiries...