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Meanwhile, negotiations over iron-ore contracts, an annual ritual that has been particularly heated this year, may be another factor. Chinese steel producers have been pushing for a discount of up to 50% on the price agreed on last year with Rio Tinto. But with the negotiations stretching long past their original June 30 deadline, steadily climbing prices for iron ore have steelmakers sweating. "Clearly the Chinese insistence that the price be cut further no longer can be sustained," says Jim Lennon, a Macquarie Bank analyst, who notes that talks "have gotten increasingly acrimonious...
...Estemirova's determined efforts over the past decade to uncover killings, torture, disappearances and kidnappings made her powerful enemies, including Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic's Kremlin-backed President. (Kadyrov released a statement calling Estemirova's killing "monstrous.") She was well aware that her work jeopardized her safety. "In Chechnya, the government creates an atmosphere of fear and mistrust," Estemirova said in 2007 as she accepted a human-rights award. "Those who witness abuse keep silent, for if they speak, they can soon become a victim." By silencing this woman who spoke, her killers have victimized everyone...
Since Jay’s departure, Harvard has struggled to meet the same level of success. The past two seasons have featured two of the longest winless streaks in Crimson history, and although Harvard has typically been able to bounce back in the spring, its hopes of securing an ECAC title and a pass to the NCAAs have not been achieved since the 2006 championship victory...
...think Bobby Jay will bring the feeling of success and confidence back to Harvard hockey,” Fraser wrote. “The past few years, Harvard hockey has gone through a few situations where the player's confidence and morale was down as a result of certain losing streaks. Although the previous years have demonstrated the strong level of resiliency that Harvard hockey endorses, Jay will undoubtedly help with the attitude of confidence in the locker-room...
...past, there were always physicists and mathematicians who came into biology…. But they essentially had to abandon their previous fields completely,” Kirschner said. “Now, there are many important questions in biology that require very specific quantitative and mathematical training...