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...find a way to get more pressure on the quarterback,” Wilson said.DRY AND MIGHTY Sharp winds and heavy rain beset Cambridge most of Saturday afternoon, but the storm barely missed New York, marking the second straight week when the forecast called for worse weather than actually occurred.The swirling winds in Wien Stadium, however, did make things difficult for sophomore punter Thomas Hull, who averaged just 31.7 yards on seven kicks.Both teams’ kickers, Patrick Long and Jon Rocholl, missed extra points.Harvard head coach Tim Murphy stopped short of blaming any of his team?...
...hyperbole perhaps, but the stands are very sparse just three minutes before kickoff. The band looks to be making up about half of the Harvard fanbase, while there are a scattered number of Lions fans on the east side of Wien Stadium. Maybe the sub-50 degree weather rain is keeping people away...
...Alive and Congo, excels at the problem-solving required by a logistically complex film. "I love math and making things work," he says. Even on the most meticulously planned movie, however, something will go wrong. There are too many people, too much expensive equipment, too many unpredictable factors like weather and local crowds. On those rocky days, "sometimes you walk on a set, and you'd think people are doing brain surgery," says Kennedy. "People take what they're doing so personally. It's a reflection of who you are." It's in these moments that Kennedy and Marshall fall...
...pennies from the sale of every loaf of bread or box of cornflakes. When commodities are cheap, the main beneficiaries are well-heeled grain -and-livestock processors like Cargill, Tyson and Archer Daniels Midland. No, the real goal has always been to protect farmers from the vagaries of the weather and the market. Farming is indeed a risky business--most businesses are risky businesses--and farm policies have tried to reduce that risk by any means available. The result has been an evolving mix of income supports, price supports, disaster relief, government purchases of surplus crops for school lunches...
...farm bill would wean farmers off subsidies but only after they received seven years of guaranteed transitional payments--even when prices were high. Farmers also received more generous crop-insurance subsidies so that Congress would no longer need to send them disaster checks every time their region had nasty weather. But when prices collapsed again in 1998, Congress approved the most generous disaster packages in history...