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...have to fire up to 600 more. The cable factory - which just this year started up a new production line - laid off 40 people, and cut pay for those who remained by 15%. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke up one day and everything had changed," says Ivan Pronin, the editor of the local paper, the Lyudinovo Worker. "It's like a hurricane blew through here all of a sudden...
...Blagojevich, 52, was either delusional, stupid or some combination of both. The feds had been on his case for years, and he knew it. Early on the morning of Dec. 9, federal Marshals woke him up with a predawn phone call, then arrived at his front door and handcuffed him shortly thereafter. By the afternoon, he stood in a Chicago courtroom looking like a common criminal, his feathered hair out of place, his executive wardrobe replaced with a black-and-blue Nike tracksuit. He faces the prospect of 30 years in prison on charges of conspiring to commit mail...
...taste my first champagne. Somewhat serendipitously, it came in the form of a cheap vodka shot handed to me by a particularly urbane senior boy with whom I fell immediately and irrevocably in love. But alas, breaking out into hives does not a good seduction tactic make, so I woke up alone in the morning, regretful, excuseless, and still slightly itchy...
...continued to ask questions about the problem set,” Wintha F. Kelati ’11, who is also on the Crimson business board, wrote in an e-mail. “The whole thing seemed so bizarre I was honestly convinced I was dreaming. I woke up a few hours later and realized my problem set was gone,” she added. Kelati’s Ec 10 problem set, which was due on that Friday, was repossessed from Garcia by HUPD after the arrest and is currently being held as evidence...
...Harvard tri-captain Jenny Brine said. “Our pucks were hopping over sticks and hitting posts, while they got lucky on some interceptions and breakaways.”With just four and half minutes left to play, a Harvard offense that was stagnant all weekend finally woke up. Taking advantage of a power play, tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt found junior Cori Bassett at the top of the right circle. Bassett slammed a slapshot past Saints goalie Britonny Chartier and into the back of the net.“When [Bassett] gets a shot off, good things happen...