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...liberal markets when voters are demanding action in the middle of an economic meltdown. Nowhere has that been more evident than in Britain - long the European Union's most enthusiastic cheerleader of American-style deregulation and free trade. On Monday, U.K. unions held a repeat of last week's wildcat strikes protesting a decision by a French-owned oil plant to bring in 300 Italian and Portuguese contract laborers. British workers at the refinery in northeast England say they want jobs to go to locals, not to cheaper foreign workers. The move sparked rare oil-worker walkouts across...
...with long-standing rival No. 7 New Hampshire (8-4-4, 3-1-3-1 Hockey East) in a non-conference game on Friday night at the Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H.The game marked the Crimson’s seventh chance to avenge a string of losses to the Wildcats since its last win against UNH in 2003. But Friday’s game was far from a shootout. The teams were well-matched, and neither team was able to score in the first period. Yet it was Harvard who stepped up its game, simply by adapting to and surviving...
...women’s eastern powerhouses has become a holiday tradition. Tonight, the rivalry continues when No. 10 Harvard and No. 7 New Hampshire face off in Durham, N.H at the Whittemore Center. When the Crimson traveled north last year for its traditional tilt with the Wildcats, the team was riding an 11-game winning streak and had just climbed to the top of the national polls. But then No. 2 New Hampshire was too tough an obstacle to overcome, sending Harvard home for the holidays with a 4-1 loss that will be fresh in the team?...
...momentum-builder for a packed slate of non-conference matchups, but also as Baskind’s coming-out party at Ohiri Field. She assisted on Wylie’s goal just 10 minutes into the game, but was just getting started. With a burst of speed that left Wildcat defenders in the dust, she set up a beautiful shot from the left side that found net and gave the Crimson a 2-0 first-half advantage. Just like that, Harvard’s newest star was born. “She has such tenacity and she works hard...
...country twice, then played New Hampshire, then come back here,” Leone said. “For that, it was a great game.” Senior Erin Wylie and freshman Melanie Baskind each notched a first-half goal and the defense held off a strong Wildcat push in the final minutes.It was the first goal of the season for Wylie and the first in the collegiate ranks for Baskind, who in early action looks to be the Katherine Sheeleigh of a year ago: a lightning-quick rookie with little reservation about what to do with a good...