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...Brett Wells, director of operations at QAC Inc., an electronics-manufacturing contractor in Pelham, N.H., says his employer is being drawn deeper into a network of shifting alliances with designers of X-ray machines, computers and cell phones. "They're becoming virtual manufacturers," Wells says, "while the real manufacturing is done by the contractors." QAC's customers are sending teams of auditors to the firm's factory to scrutinize its machinery, measure its capacity, ask about its other customers and even examine its financial statements...
...Nick McDonnell, the precocious 18-year-old author of "Twelve" (Grove Atlantic; July), is the son of Terry McDonnell, the managing editor of Sports Illustrated. The author, who is being compared by his publisher to Brett Easton Ellis," has written the story of "the extremely privileged young on the upper east side." The extremely privileged young author is on his way to Harvard in September...
...men’s hockey team also added to the winter season’s luster. Begininng the year ranked eighth in the nation, the Crimson had high expectations, buoyed by an all-star class of freshman and the junior tandem of Brett Nowak and Dom Moore. Though the Crimson limped into the ECAC Tournament, Harvard turned its season around in the playoffs, winning one single-overtime and two double-overtime games in four total post-season contests to wrap up an ECAC Championship. The Crimson also provided high drama in numerous regular season games, making a reputation for falling...
Last year the Red Sox were forced to make do with a substandard selection of mediocre rookies and arm-weary veterans. Joe Kerrigan and his staff coaxed as much as they could from the likes of Brett Saberhagen, Rod Beck and Tomo Okha—but such a staff could clearly never be expected to win a World Series. The injury to Pedro Martinez was, of course, vital, but even before he went down the staff looked decidedly thin. His injury was merely a convenient peg for a slide that would have doubtless occurred at some point with a patchy...
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