| Never-say-die Niwot advances
After legendary coach Bob Bote left the program following 28 seasons running the team and five state championships, it was natural for outsiders and rivals to question whether the Cougars would still have the skills and swagger necessary to keep the tradition going. Jason Lathrop's team had all the answers on an improbable Saturday at Butch Butler Field in which Niwot: Committed eight errors and was one strike away (twice) from having the season end before beating Liberty 6-5 in 10 innings. Ate lunch while watching the well-rested Mustangs take infield before beating Ralston Valley 11-6 in the afternoon game. The Cougars (15-9) — the No. 21 seed entering the District 4 Tournament, where they upset Pueblo South and Skyline — will play Thomas Jefferson on Friday at All-Star Park in Lakewood with a trip to the Class 4A state championship game on the line.
Disagreeable rate of employee arguments
While the hit television series The Apprentice shows its contestants going head to head in order to work for Sir Alan Sugar, a major study into workplace conflict by international law firm Eversheds has revealed that, away from the boardroom, workers in Cambridge are regularly at odds with each other. Despite 61% of the workforce in East Anglia believing that conflict is unhealthy, 35% in the region clash with their colleagues on a weekly basis - almost 5% above the national average. The research, which involved 1,000 UK employees, provides an insight into the level of conflict between staff. If you work in finance, human resources, travel and transport or in the retail, catering and leisure industries, then you are more likely to disagree with your colleagues than in other professions.
Subprime fiasco exposes manipulation by brokerages
TAHER AFGHANI WAS WORKING for discount retailer Target Corp. near San Francisco when friends told him about the riches to be made in Californias Mortgage Alley. It was 2004, and the U.S. real estate market was on fire. Down in Southern California, a hub for lenders specializing in loans to people with weak, or subprime, credit, Afghanis pals were making a fortune pushing risky mortgages on homebuyers. After tagging along with a buddy on a company trip to Los Cabos, Mexico, Afghani quit Target, headed south and began hustling loans at Costa Mesa-based Secured Funding Corp. I had never seen so much money thrown around in one weekend, Afghani, 27, says of the Cabo getaway. It was crazy. All these kids, literally 18 to 26, were loadedthe best clothes, the cars, the girls, everything.
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