Word: felling
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Naqushbandi fell to Brown's Caroline Casey in Harvard's only loss of the day. After dropping the first set, Naqushbandi was unable to complete a second-set comeback, falling, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. Sophomore Sarah McGinty picked up the slack in her match, finding her rhythm after struggling in the first-set to take a three-set victory...
...fact that everything in a farmer's life costs more today. Currency devaluation and the elimination of agricultural subsidies doubled and quadrupled fertilizer prices, according to a study by the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Farmers couldn't borrow, because short-term interest rates in rural areas hit 100%. Yields fell, but thanks to global oversupply and greedy middlemen, farmers were often paid less for what they could grow. Famine remains a persistent threat for 40% of the country...
...their white horses once again and save the day. It's simply too early to tell. What we know for sure, though, is that they didn't ride in last week, when the only tracks in evidence were left by the bears who trampled the NASDAQ, which fell a record 25.3% for the week, and the Dow, which on Friday suffered its worst one-day point loss--a, ahem, dip of 618 points...
...also know that those who tried to save the day two weeks ago on Terrible Tuesday--the day the NASDAQ fell 13.6% but got almost all of it back in a matter of hours--are now worse off for their efforts. The index finished on Friday at 3321, well below the week-earlier bottom of 3649. Investors who had smugly picked up Cisco at $64 and watched it rebound to $76 were by late last week the proud owners of a $57 stock. That will probably work out for them longer term. But raise your hand if you think such...
...Hollywood's hot young black actors and even a few rap stars for the spot opposite Claire Danes and Giovanni Ribisi in this Gen X version of the cult TV series. Once the screening began, however, Epps quickly lost interest and shut his eyes to escape the boredom. "I fell asleep," he recalls. "When I finally woke up, I looked around and said, 'S___, this movie is gonna bomb...