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Adam’s Brain Break is guarded as if it were a U.N. aid van in a disaster zone rather than a source for food in a college dorm. At 9:58 p.m. EST, six hungry Adams residents lined up in front of a uniformed guard. And unless you can prove your Adams residency with a recently postmarked letter or a parking ticket (okay, we're kidding about the letters, but proof of residency in Adams is sometimes actually required), don’t expect the guard to budge, and don’t expect to be able...
Against more traditional man-to-man defenses, Harvard’s dynamic scorers might have a clear path to goal after beating their defensemen, but the Big Green’s zone defense is designed to clog up the space around the goal, making one-on-one skills less important than strong passing and fluid ball movement...
...biggest thing is having the right zone mentality, making sure that you’re patient,” Tillman said. “When teams run zone, they want you to be impatient and then take a rushed shot instead of really looking for the best shot, not the first shot...
...Merkel is effectively daring him to do it. Speaking to the German Parliament in Berlin last week, Merkel said that calling in the IMF "would probably have to be the way out right now if action were to be taken." She went on to say that the euro-zone countries should be able to kick out one of their own to avert a crisis in the future - a statement deliberately aimed at Greece. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...lift the pressure for reform in Greece. "That would risk setting a precedent of profligate countries taking advantages of the others," says Silvio Peruzzo, a London-based analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. "If you set up a bad incentive, then you undermine the credibility of the euro zone. In that sense, the Germans are much more forward-looking." (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...