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...annual anomaly that brings the Harvard student body together in the name of sports: The Game.The final whistle’s sound each November cements the memories. Thanks to a league ban on postseason playoffs, there is no chance to change history—no conference title contest, bowl game, or national championship. The memories linger with coaches, players, and fans—exultant or despondent, sweet or sour.For the Class of 2008, those reminiscences are largely happy ones. Not only did the Crimson team win three of the four Harvard-Yale matchups, bookending their careers with...
...untrained eye might have assumed that it was Tim Murphy, not Yale’s Jack Siedlecki, who was on the verge of an undefeated season at the Yale Bowl on Nov. 17. Murphy’s steady hand had guided Harvard through the Ivy League slate unbeaten, setting up a showdown with Yale for the Ivy title with the Bulldogs’ unbeaten season on the line...
...building on hallowed ground is a tricky matter. After Gerry entered the picture, a preservation group sprang up to resist any construction in the bowl that held the stage and most of the crowd. In the end, the main structures were located at or just beyond the upper rim of that land, most of which remains open. The site is compromised, but nothing like the way it would have been if tract-housing developers had gotten hold...
...Perhaps this time will be different. The Irrawaddy delta is Burma's rice bowl. Not only was nearly all of this season's crop destroyed by Nargis, but most farmers won't be able to plant the next batch of seedlings because of salt-water inundation. Future shortages could spell dissent: at least five protest movements in Burma's recent history happened in the months when grain prices were at their highest. In a startling indication of dissatisfaction, an official counting referendum votes in Rakhine state told a Rangoon journalist that in 15 townships, the "no" vote ranged from...
...stock market doesn't feel that way. In January, when Under Armour announced heavy marketing costs, including a $4.4 million Super Bowl ad for the launch of the training shoe, its stock dropped 33%, to $28.80 a share, over a two-day period. Under Armour also announced that $28 million in first-quarter marketing expenses, an increase of 103%, helped send profits down 71% for that quarter...