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...first game of Sunday’s doubleheader against Yale, the Harvard baseball team could only muster two runs in a 4-2 loss. Add the near-freezing temperature and swirling winds sweeping O’Donnell Field, and Crimson coach Joe Walsh knew that the team might have take a different approach to manufacturing runs in the second half of the twinbill. So in the thirty minutes between the two games, Walsh talked to his team about being more aggressive—both at the plate and on the basepaths.Harvard (8-21, 6-4 Ivy) did just that, stealing...
...headquartered in Detroit and employs more than 53,000 people in Michigan, but in the corporate-bankruptcy system, courts compete for cases - especially big ones - so the company could easily wind up at a courthouse hundreds of miles away. Likely venues include Wilmington, Del., the state in which GM is incorporated, and New York City, which has a history of landing large out-of-town cases, such as those involving WorldCom and Enron. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...effect of venue-shopping, contends LoPucki, is that courts wind up more often ruling in favor of companies - to the detriment of creditors and labor unions. "Whoever gets this case must rule for management, or else they'll never get another corporate case," he says. Others aren't convinced the outcome is so nefarious, though the system certainly does give particular judges more than their fair share of influence over bankruptcy case law. "You normally expect various decisions through various courts, which creates the opportunity for the development of the law," says Jeffrey Morris, a law professor at the University...
...going to blade off hundreds of thousands of acres of earth to preserve the earth?' DAVID MYERS, head of the Wildlands Conservancy, criticizing a proposal to build massive wind, solar and geothermal plants in the Mojave Desert...
With many jokes between his policy suggestions, Frank outlined four primary goals for combating the recession: a ban on full securitization of loans, a reduction of incentives for risk in corporate governance, the creation of “wind-down institutions” for helping failed companies effectively close down and the establishment of federal agencies for evaluating “systemic risk...