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After taking last weekend off, the women’s water polo team traveled to Oneonta, N.Y. for its opening conference game of the season and an exhibition match-up. Despite a dominating performance from co-captain Devon MacLaughlin, who registered a total of seven goals on the day, the squad lost to both No. 13 Hartwick (14-6, 1-0 CWPA) and the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) on Saturday. The Crimson (4-6, 0-1 CWPA) dropped a shootout to NYAC, losing 17-16 in the non-NCAA match. Earlier in the day, Harvard could not prevent...
...boom years, he occupied a spacious sea-view apartment near downtown Singapore that rented for $5,000 a month. Today he occupies more modest digs, paying about $700 a month for an apartment he shares with a friend. "I'm interested in creature comforts like hot water, but I can do without joining a country club or driving a Lamborghini," he says...
...happen. So, the news was "better than expected" and whatever gravity had been holding stocks down disappeared. The news about GE shows how perverse the market has become and also serves as a reminder of how stock investors and economists can be blinded by a drop of water in what is otherwise obviously a desert. There is no circumstance under which a downgrade of GE's debt is good news. It just seems that way when the world is dark...
...rain forest. Slowly, gradually, as Humes aptly chronicles, they convinced the government that they wanted nothing more than to protect one of the most beautiful and heretofore untouched stretches of forest in the world - what the Chilean poet Mario Miranda Soussi once called the "Patagonia of infinite land and water." Today Tompkins and his wife own 2 million acres in Chile and Argentina centered on the private nature sanctuary of Pumalin Park, which Tompkins plans to turn over to the Chilean people eventually. "He's preserved more rain forest than anyone else on Earth," says Humes...
...reform, when committee infighting helped sink that effort. Both chambers have said they intend to see legislation reach the floor before the August recess, though many admit the tougher part will come when the differences between the two versions must be reconciled. "The House bill will be the high-water mark of what we'd like to do with the system," says a Democratic Senate staffer involved in the talks. "Still, we don't have 60 votes yet. So the House is going to have to accept, to a certain degree, what we work out here...