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...early-season wins go, though, this was worth remembering. Going in, Harvard was a ho-hum 2-2-1, down to No. 14 in the national polls and wallowing in the vast middleground of the ECAC standings...
Indeed, Cartoon Network's comedies may be richer for being poorer. Too many network comedies with vast staffs of writers hit the same note of competent lameness. With a few writers at most, Adult Swim's comedies have something that millions of dollars can't buy According to Jim: an original voice. Home Movies--a sweet, off-kilter comedy about neurotic eight-year-old film buffs, their dysfunctional families and their alcoholic soccer coach--relies heavily on improvisation to create true-to-life dialogue; executive producer Loren Bouchard recalls how voice actress Melissa Bardin Galsky came up with...
Having been shown the money, Wall Street is starting to embrace on-the-ground economic development in the form of microfinance. Over the past three decades, the practice of lending as little as $50 to poor, self-employed individuals, the vast majority of them women, has proved its sustainability through near perfect repayment rates. Plus, the short-term loans turn over several times a year, lifting tortilla makers in Mexico and basket weavers in Benin out of poverty along the way. With 3 billion people living on less than $2 a day, there's a huge market for this kind...
...Predatory transients" are what police call serial killers who strike across vast areas or move to places where they have a better chance of getting away with murder. They were rare in China a decade ago, when internal travel by citizens required official permission. Now, with the easing of residence permits and 120 million migrants already living in the cities, criminals and killers, too, have hit the road. In addition to detaining Ma, a native of Hunan province, police have in recent weeks held a man in Hebei province on suspicion of killing 65 people in four provinces, and another...
...once so unquestioningly bordered my days. The personal issues that now most press on my mind—how am I going to focus my studies? what do I most want to get out of college? what will graduation bring?—seek to pare down the vast range of Harvard and Harvard experiences to a manageable selection that I can grasp with my two hands, that can become as familiar to me as the lines of dialogue in Kevin Smith flicks...