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...have a really young team, and a lot of us were thrown into Division I play really quickly,” Kimmel said. “I’m really excited [in the offseason] to build on our experiences this season, grow as a team, and continue to have the upperclassmen step...
...decision to back out of the sale of its European operations this week was a huge embarrassment for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She had thrown her weight behind the bid by the Canadian-Austrian car-parts maker Magna and its Russian partner, Sberbank, to buy Opel and Vauxhall from the beginning, seeing it as the best way to save German jobs and offering both sides billions of dollars in loan guarantees to grease the wheels. Before GM made its sudden U-turn on Nov. 3, Merkel had also been riding high. She was coming off an electoral victory in September...
...explain, occurs when a player with the ball is tackled to the ground. A “ruck” occurs when players from both teams fight for the ball after a tackle. The ball can travel down the field, they explain, by being kicked or carried, but not thrown forward. If the ball goes out of bounds, it is returned to play in a “line-out.” During a line-out both teams form pods around a player and guide her into the air, helping her try to catch the ball. For a moment...
...Does Beijing care? In its response to the financial crisis - the depth of which absolutely stunned Chinese policymakers - China desperately pushed every familiar button to keep its economy from succumbing the way the developed world's did. It has thrown buckets of practically free money at state-owned banks, which in turn loaned it out to mostly state-owned companies in a wide range of industries. Banks also loaned money to real estate developers, who have added inventory to what were already overbuilt residential and commercial markets in several major Chinese cities. And now the government has turned around...
...right here? Well, first, the Republican argument that the stimulus is a bust because jobs have been lost fails a basic logic test. After last fall's global financial shock, the job market was going to be thrown for a loss no matter what. The issue is whether the number of job losses is greater or lesser than it would have been in the absence of the stimulus. "You can't answer these questions without a compared-to-what," says Jared Bernstein, economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, who is overseeing the stimulus. "We can have good arguments about...