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...leaves more than a few thousand dead; but this year, an estimated 10,000, or about 1% of the wildebeest population, were wiped out. Conservationists say the wildebeest simply chose the wrong point to cross the river, one where the bank on the other side was too steep to climb. As those in the front drowned, they trapped those behind them...
...trailed off, realizing the hole he was digging himself into, and used me to climb...
...spring. But if Harvard is to live up to its lofty hopes, it will have to maintain its highest level of play from the get-go, which it failed to do against Penn State, losing the doubles point in a sweep and leaving its singles players to climb out of a hole. “To a certain extent, we were sleep-walking through some of the matches,” junior co-captain Chris Clayton said. Given how dominant the Crimson was in its first two matches—cruising to consecutive 6-1 victories against George Washington...
McCain has indicated that he, too, will accept matching funds. He has begun to climb back in the polls, and last week, began his first television ads. But the third-quarter number will be closely watched to see whether his campaign has any real claim to viability. Word in Republican circles is that McCain got some boost with a powerful and intensely personal fund-raising letter he sent out in July that bluntly addressed his campaign's dire situation. "I'm sitting here at 12:33 a.m. at my desk - all alone, writing you this letter," it began. "My wife...
...very prosperity that Bretton Woods enabled was its undoing. As Germany and France returned to the ranks of major economic powers, and Japan began its climb to get there, the exchange rates set up after the war and adjusted only slightly afterward made no sense anymore. Attempts to update the system collapsed in 1971, and the world's major economies moved to freely floating currencies. The transition wasn't pretty: stock markets plummeted, banks failed, oil exporters jacked up prices and inflation raged--especially...