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...that point, Mazzoleni lifted Grumet-Morris (eight saves, three goals allowed) in favor of sophomore netminder John Daigneau. Things began to improve for the Crimson midway through the second, and at 18:11 sophomore forward Charlie Johnson scored a power play goal to put Harvard on the board...
...initial momentum appeared to swing in Harvard’s favor, as the team jumped on its traveling partner early and often. The Crimson outshot Brown by six in the first period and won 23 of 28 faceoffs...
...Crimson would have no such luck for the remainder of the game; in fact, the balance always seemed to shift in Princeton’s (12-5-0, 5-3-0 ECAC) favor...
...against the immediate use of force but in favor of the resolution? Not quite. "It was clear that the Administration was determined to go to war," Clark told me last week, in an effort to parse his testimony. "I disagreed with that priority, but if you couldn't persuade the President to put it aside, you could try to work it through the United Nations ... I learned in the Balkans that diplomacy requires the threat of force--and so I favored a congressional resolution." But not the resolution that was eventually passed. He wanted Bush to return to Congress...
Investing for dividends fell deeply out of favor in the grow-grow 1990s, when the number of companies that pay them declined steadily and the average dividend yield shriveled to just 1.1%. Before this unusual period, an average dividend yield of 3% was considered abysmally low. But with tech stocks in favor and aggressive CEOs reinvesting for earnings growth, the number of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 that paid a dividend sank to just 351 at the end of 2002 from a peak of 469. This decline reversed last year. An improving economy and a new law that...