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...final frame.Harvard’s stifling defense kept Siena’s streaky offense—which racked up 19 goals against Presbyterian in its season opener—in check with notable performances from junior Sean Whitsitt at short-stick defender and classmate Sam Slaughter.On a brisk afternoon, Siena snatched an early, but slim, lead by claiming the only goal of the first quarter. Harvard answered with three goals to take a 3-1 lead with 6:43 remaining in the first half. Two minutes into the second quarter, tri-captain Brooks Scholl tallied the first Crimson goal...
...plot that propels the novella, but rather the intimate, unfolding portrait of village life in eastern Nepal that Chettri sketches in masterfully stark but occasionally lyrical prose - like a brisk, cold brook dappled with sun. Chettri vividly conjures the social and natural landscapes in which Dhané's miserable story takes place, from trade councils lorded by ruthless landowners, to placid livestock pastures and swollen rice paddies pleating the hills. The book "might not entertain its readers, because that is not its aim," Chettri has written. "I have simply tried to give a picture of the villages in the hills...
...more unwanted stock than ever. Shares across Europe traded down Tuesday, a day after registering their biggest single-day slide since September 11, 2001. London's FTSE 100 index fell 5.5% Monday, swiping $150 billion off the value of Britain's blue-chip firms. The sell-offs were brisk in Asia, too. Shares in China skidded more than 7% to a 5-month low Tuesday; markets even suspended trading in India and South Korea on the back of heavy losses...
...Business was brisk today. Hands, whose London-based private equity company Terra Firma picked up EMI for $6.5 billion last year, told his staff that as many as 2,000 of them would lose their jobs over the coming months as part of a plan to pare EMI's costs by around $400 million a year. More effort had to go into finding fresh acts, Hands said, as well as into getting more out of those the firm already has. Out will go diverse sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution units, to be replaced by a single division. "We believe...
Biden has seen standing room-only crowds, like the one in Ames, across the state in recent weeks. And the Ames audience was twice moved to its feet in ovations for Biden's stump speech - a surprisingly brisk 18 minutes compared to Obama's nearly hour-long closing argument, Hillary's 45-minute speeches and Edwards' typical 35-minute spiel. Biden by comparison spends more than an hour answering questions, a strategy, his communications director Larry Rusky says, that is starting...