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...regular-season sweep of the league’s upper echelon with a tidy 4-0 victory over No. 10 Big Green (11-7-3, 8-5-1) before 1, 489 fans at Bright Hockey Center. Sophomore goalie Christina Kessler anchored the effort with her school-record-setting eighth shutout of the season, breaking the mark set by Ali Boe '06 in the 2003-04 season...
...always evident that Venter would become such a transformative figure - particularly when he was a boy. He was never a terribly engaged student (his 2007 autobiography, A Life Decoded, includes his eighth-grade report card, filled with Cs and Ds). He fondly recalls testing the patience of both his parents and the pilots at San Francisco International Airport when he and his friends, pedaling furiously on their bicycles, would race planes taxiing for takeoff on a remote runway. (Airport officials eventually fenced it off.) In 1967 he went to Vietnam, where he had been drafted to serve as a hospital...
...Concerns that a small group of foreigners are controlling much of Britain's wealth has moved the government to change the rules. In October, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced a proposal to charge foreign residents an annual $60,000 fee beginning in the eighth year of their stay in Britain. The question is, if London's foreign rich follow the money right out of town as a result, can London afford to lose them? Scorpio Partnership's Dovey fears the worst. "They don't have any deep ingrained ties to Britain," he says. "If the economic climate changes...
...hockey team Friday night in its 3-1 loss to St. Lawrence at the Bright Hockey Center. The Crimson dominated much of the play, but in the end, the outcome did not match the team’s performance. The loss marked Harvard’s eighth straight game without a win. “We did enough to have a winning night,” coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “But you can’t take three or four penalties every period and expect the result you want, no matter how hard...
...second malady is corruption. Kenya ranks eighth from the bottom on the list of the world's most corrupt countries, compiled by the watchdog group Transparency International. Kibaki's government and that of his predecessor Daniel arap Moi have been dogged by allegations of dirty deals running into hundreds of millions of dollars. Kibaki's former anti-corruption czar John Githongo went into self-imposed exile in Britain in 2005 after he became disillusioned by the President's lack of commitment to fighting graft and faced death threats. The government, he tells TIME, had "abandoned promises to equitably share power...