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...happy with a top six or eighth [place finish],” Hobeika said...
While it is true that the Harvard-Yale cycle does affect the figures for those two schools—Harvard finished eighth in 2002 and Yale finished third in 2001—it can’t explain the following...
...overreaction? Perhaps. Certainly there is an element of irrational behavior in the stock-market trembling that occurs every time the world's newest economic debutante adjusts her corset. China's $1.41 trillion economy is, after all, only the world's sixth largest (one-eighth the size of the U.S.'s and less than half of Japan's). But China's voracious demand for the world's raw materials and its burgeoning consumer markets means that the country has taken on outsized importance as an engine of global economic growth. Since 1995, China's GDP has doubled and its imports have...
...convention against torture defines torture as any act that inflicts severe pain or suffering, physical or mental. When the U.S. ratified the convention in 1990, it defined torture as anything cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment. The convention prohibits countries from handing over captives to another state known to employ torture...
...weekend’s few bright spots were victories from sophomores Laura Maludzinski and Samyr Laine—with classmate Lawrence Adjah registering second place right behind Laine—as the Crimson came home from Heptagonals with dual eighth-place finishes...