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...Crimson came out with improved defense on Saturday afternoon but fell to Fordham for the second time this season. The Rams (6-6, 0-0 Northern Division) came out with a 4-1 lead over the Crimson. Harvard pulled within one point, sitting at 4-3, but the Rams seemed to find a rhythm and controlled the contest for the rest of the way, scoring four of the next five goals...
...announced last week that the size of its endowment fell by roughly 21 percent this past fiscal year—substantially better than the 30 percent declines reported by Harvard and Yale only a few days earlier...
...homicide goes, federal figures show that rates are down: matching the country's general crime trends, workplace killings have fallen by more than half since the 1990s, tumbling from 1,080 in 1994 to 517 in 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The figure fell 18% from the year before. "I think there is undue anxiety over homicide at work. There's no question," says Barton, who helps train the FBI to prevent workplace violence...
...visited Imperial with a lover. “Until a week ago this place had been hers and mine, our place,” he writes, “in those days Imperial was as beautiful as a double rainbow over the desert, rain falling and evaporating as it fell when we came down Highway 78 into Ocotillo.” He characterizes his quest as one to understand Imperial as a place divorced from his own personal memories. Somehow this absurd explanation for the origins of “Imperial” seems absolutely credible coming from Vollmann, whose...
...campaign comes at the beginning of a new school year, when trains grow more crowded with younger women who might be more vulnerable. Over the past few years, reported incidents and arrests have slowly declined in the Tokyo area; the number of arrests fell 11% in the first six months of the year. And women are increasingly consulting railroad police, a special section of the department that handles railway incidents, about what they should do if they think they've been molested...