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...goal each. Improved success in winning draws was crucial to Harvard’s late-game success, just as a failure to control the draw explained the Crimson’s earlier difficulties. “We really had trouble getting the draw, and that was really the difference maker,” Barlow said. “When we started getting the draw in the last 10 minutes of the game, we started scoring goals.” Harvard plays its final game of the season Wednesday at Brown. Barlow believes the final contest of her career will...
...April 1983 an Iranian surrogate group blew up the American embassy in Beirut. Forensic investigators sifting through the rubble determined with a fair amount of certainty that the bomb maker had inserted explosives inside the firing chain, ensuring a "signature" was not left to tie the attack to Iran. Iran never claimed the attack, the suicide bomber was never named, and if it weren't for a still classified lucky break, we would have had no evidence the Iranians were behind it. It is unlikely in the intervening years Iran lost its touch. It certainly isn't clumsy enough...
When Tomoyo Nonaka took over Sanyo, the struggling Japanese electronics maker, in June 2005, she already had one strike against her. Nonaka was a female CEO in a business culture that is overwhelmingly male. A more timid executive would have charted a cautious course, focusing on slashing costs at a company that lost $1.6 billion in its 2005 fiscal year. But Nonaka, a former TV journalist, instead announced a bold plan to transform Sanyo into a leader in environmentally friendly products. "The 21st century is about turning away from oil to alternate forms of energy," Nonaka, 52, told TIME shortly...
...growth, and have made bets on the future that assume steady, rapid and sustained growth there. Forget about the obvious beneficiaries of the China boom, such as producers of oil and commodities. China's growth is a huge boost to American companies like Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar Tractor and chip-maker Texas Instruments. The beneficiaries also include service companies ranging from law firms and investment banks to environmental consultants...
...offsetting positions on property like stocks). Within a few hours, I was ready to e-file. The only annoying part - aside from the whole taxpaying thing, of course - was dealing with an unhelpful call center when my CD didn't understand that I'd already paid Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and didn't need to give my credit card number again...