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...Closing price for a share of Google last Tuesday, when the stock broke $500 for the first time. Analysts predict a rise to $600 within a year...
...seconds remaining in the frame. Bassett's was one of five Crimson power-play goals, including co-captain Julie Chu's and Vaillancourt's second of the evening, on 13 Quinnipiac fouls. In all, the Bobcats accumulated 52 penalty minutes, with two separate game misconduct infractions. Kallie Flor broke up sophomore netminder Brittany Martin's shutout with just over two minutes left in the game. Martin finished with a mere eight saves—a testament to the Crimson defense—in her 7th victory of the season. Laura Brennan made 39 stops for Quinnipiac. Harvard finishes the trip...
After scoring a combined four goals during the opening period, the two teams remained quiet through most of the second frame. With the period winding down, the Crimson finally broke through, scoring what would prove to be the game-winner on an elegantly executed offensive charge...
...clergy. Williams, who was accompanied by his wife and two children, timed his trip to mark the 40th anniversary of a historic meeting between Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI. On that first formal encounter between the heads of the two Churches since England's King Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century, the Pope gave Ramsey the ring that symbolizes his papal authority. Williams was wearing that same ring in his meeting with Benedict. And these days, he might wish he had his own symbol of absolute power to wield back at home...
...September 2004, Ahdab broke a taboo by publicly announcing that he had received anonymous death threats intended to pressure him into voting for a controversial three-year extension of the presidency of the pro-Syrian incumbent, Emile Lahoud. Ahdab ignored the threats and voted against the extension. He was not the only politician under pressure. Then-Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri was allegedly directly threatened by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to support Lahoud's extension, despite his deep opposition to the move...