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Given the way things turned out, there was probably a better title for Amit Chatwani's first book, Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Banker. The satirical look at hotshot bankers came out on Aug. 4, "three weeks before the world fell apart," says the 26-year-old author of spoof blog The Leveraged Sell-Out. "What timing...
...she’s very hard to stop.” Taking on another seeded player in the third round, Peterzan was unable to continue her run through the draw. She was defeated 6-2, 6-3 by Virginia’s Emily Fraser, the number nine seed. Peterzan fell behind in the first set and was never able to recover, but the score was slightly deceiving. “Just a few points going the other way could have completely turned around the outcome of the match,” Peterzan said. “If I were...
...makes Peugeot and Citroën cars - said they will temporarily close all their domestic factories this week, and have asked employees to stay away on paid leave in response to shrinking demand. Germany's Ifo Institute, meanwhile, said its primary activity index, which measures industry and trade activity, fell to a five-year low last month...
...people that are either conservative or liberal,” Huchra said. “Other kinds of diversity at this place are more important.” He added that policies to attract more women in science, for example, would be a better priority.Wisse said the responsibility ultimately fell to students to demand a more politically balanced faculty.“The timidity of Harvard students in this regard is really astonishing to me. Thoughtful students know they are being short-changed,” Wisse said. “Where is the backbone of that part...
...face before and triumphed, as he did when his campaign collapsed in the summer of 2007, financially broke and in disarray. Back then, trusted friends advised him to withdraw rather than suffer a humiliating defeat. Even some of his closest associates were ready to give up, and it fell to McCain to tell them to quit feeling sorry for themselves, to lecture them about what it means to keep fighting for what you believe in. Of course, he was right, and he emerged improbably from a field of contenders to win the Republican nomination. "McCain doesn't have...