Word: wildes
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...competition for money - which will surely intensify as new bank holding companies like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and American Express amp up efforts to attract deposits - is also squeezing banks' profit margins, further straining an already weak industry and stressing smaller banks, many of which didn't go hog wild making risky loans in the first place. "Higher rates are a short-term fix," says Camden Fine, president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America. "Eventually, you feel the aftereffects...
...high-flying start to Saturday night’s game and wild first-period play by the Harvard men’s hockey team (4-6-2, 4-3-2 ECAC) eased off, as the Crimson skated to a 4-3 loss in its second matchup of the weekend with the University of North Dakota (7-8-1, 4-5-1 WCHA) at the Bright Hockey Center.Harvard came out fighting. Seeking revenge against the Fighting Sioux, who bullied the Crimson to a 10-1 loss the previous night and handed the team its first home defeat of the season, Harvard...
...pictures of China on the wild side...
...images out of Mumbai since Nov. 26 - a wild-eyed gunman in cargo pants and T shirt, black smoke engulfing the grand dome of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, a cherubic toddler robbed of his parents - the one hardest to grasp is Mumbai without people. Driving toward south Mumbai on the morning after the attacks, the city's normally teeming streets were emptied of life. In one sense, this was lovely, if disturbing: you had unimpeded views of the city's stately colonial buildings, its stone-paved avenues and the glittering sea. But this absence of humanity also revealed...
...that could help them achieve what they consider the far more important goal of their plot in striking a blow for God?" Bruguière asks. "Adepts of the Takfir wal-Hijra sect will adopt what Islam considers impure behavior of enemy societies, like drinking alcohol, eating pork and wild living, to better prepare attacks for those same societies. That's what Mohamed Atta and the other 9/11 attackers did while plotting in the U.S. If terrorists feel jihad justifies impious acts to prepare strikes, why wouldn't that rationalization also apply to carrying attacks...