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...Wishful Thinking.” The gym’s acoustics were clearly not designed for a nuanced musical performance and left much to desire, but neither the newly initiated fans nor the old diehards seemed to notice, as they swayed and danced ecstatically in the sweltering heat...
...place or even a clear process for selecting one in a political system that has, since the early 1950s, been dominated by the security establishment, and in which the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood remains, by most estimates, the most popular opposition group. The bombers have certainly turned up the heat on Egypt at a moment when the system's structural weakness are under strain. The effects of the carnage along the Red Sea may eventually be felt by many more than just the families of the victims...
...crew’s opening heat in Greece, the eight set the world record for their event, covering the two kilometers in 5.56.55. But Romania edged out the Americans in the final by half a length, and Davies has returned to Cambridge, silver medal in tow, to complete her senior year...
...comment “Well yeah, it was good a thing we set the world record, because if we hadn’t set the world record, we would have come in third.” A lot of it was the really strong tailwind. I actually think our heat was our best race. We were almost a little more, not hungry, but we definitely just were out of it (the start). In the final we were almost a little more conservative off the start, because we didn’t want to waste our energy. But it turns...
...pension managers are feeling the heat and turning to so-called alternative investments, like hedge funds, in search of better returns. Most hedge funds try to exploit temporary price discrepancies between, say, a barrel of oil and stocks of oil producers, making money as prices fall back in synch--even if the overall markets are sinking. It's a fairly conservative approach--until a hedge-fund manager attempts to multiply profits by borrowing many times over the amount of assets in the fund. Such borrowing is legal, and even expected, but since Long-Term Capital's meltdown, the Federal Reserve...