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Harvard’s running game, the weaker point of the offense all season, became the focal point on Saturday and responded with a masterful performance spearheaded by sophomore Gino Gordon. Gordon finished with 39 carries for 168 yards—career highs in both—and the lone touchdown of the contest. The Crimson’s 261 rushing yards were its second-highest total of the season and roughly double the team’s 130.3 rushing yards per game average. Senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti, who showed progressively more mobility as the season wore on, finished with...
...stronger than it thinks, and Russia is weaker than it pretends. Note to Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy: Use your leverage not to rile Russia, but to recruit it into the community of responsible powers. Tell President Medvedev that the new economic partnership agreement comes with a good-conduct pledge - like not invading neighbors or threatening them with missiles...
...turbines require space and sky - at least half an acre of open land - to get access to consistent winds. Still, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), some 15 million homes in the U.S. fit that definition - and small turbines, unlike large wind farms, can be productive in weaker breezes, which puts more of the country into play, though the best areas are still windy spots like the Midwest or West Texas...
...market been weaker than the European markets lately? The sales decline here [in the U.S.] has been stronger than in most European countries, but the downward trend in Europe is worsening. What we are seeing here is coming to Europe as well. It will last at least 12 months. It will get worse before it gets better. A lot of jobs are going to be lost in the next few months. People are scared and that will keep them from shopping. We haven't reached the worst...
...meantime, the newly headless group will likely only grow weaker. "More and more, the structure of ETA is eroding," says Sánchez-Cuenca. "It's not clear anymore who is making the decisions." Thus there is cautious hope that Europe's last anachronistic terrorist grouping, which has more than 800 deaths to answer for over the last forty years, may finally be heading towards the obsolescence of Northern Ireland's IRA, Germany's Red Army Faction and Italy's Red Brigades. But such hopes have been cruelly dashed before...