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...pessimistic among the 1,830 at Bright flashed back to Nov. 14, when Harvard blew two-goal lead and lost to Princeton...
It’s so easy to root for Houston: missing the playoffs by one lousy game, not one playoff series win in the history of the team, the return of two hometown heroes this season. And man, the fans want it—they blew out the switchboard calling for season tickets...
DARRYL STRAWBERRY SALARY: $3.8 MILLION 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers A big free-agent pickup--but the team blew a division lead to the Atlanta Braves and missed the play-offs...
...week for U.S. troops in Afghanistan: eight soldiers died and three were wounded after a Taliban weapons cache they had discovered exploded outside Ghazni, 60 miles southeast of Kabul. U.S. officials say it's too soon to know why the arsenal blew up, though the Taliban has booby-trapped such caches in the past. But the week's events highlighted an even greater concern: the Taliban may be taking a cue from insurgents in Iraq and embarking on the deadly new tactic of suicide attacks in the country's capital, Kabul...
...some investors and bankers are now focusing on the issue as a result of the recent scandals. While many big investors have been relaxed about companies using offshore holdings to reduce their tax burdens, overuse of havens can raise red flags. Indeed, in December 2002, a year before Parmalat blew up, a Merrill Lynch analyst in London, Joanna Speed, downgraded the company to "sell" from "buy" in part because of its "inefficient, opaque and complex" balance sheet. Shame can be a useful weapon. At a recent hearing by a U.S. Senate committee, senior executives of the accounting firm KPMG were...