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...singles competition, Durkin and Wang put the Crimson on the board, as each coasted to 6-2, 6-1 victories. Lingman led 3-0 in the first set of her singles match against Cline, North Carolina’s top player, before winning 6-3, and she broke serve to go ahead 3-2 in the second set en route to another 6-3 set and an upset victory...
Then there were the AT&T Wireless execs who were sent on a scavenger hunt and told to use their Mmode location software to find an ATM, a drugstore and a particular kind of Japanese cookie. Almost immediately, Mmode proved too hard to use. One participant broke down and dialed 411, and another called his wife and asked her to Google a location. "They realized their competition wasn't Verizon," says Ideo's Duane Bray, who designed the exercise. "Their competition was real life...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON By Ron Chernow Here a few things you didn't know about Alexander Hamilton. He was born illegitimate in the British West Indies. At 14 he was broke and virtually an orphan--his mother was dead, his father gone. But by 22 he was an aide-de-camp to George Washington, and by 34 he was this country's first Secretary of the Treasury and the principal architect of U.S.-style capitalism. For everything in between, pick up Chernow's vast and vastly entertaining biography. --By Lev Grossman
Harvard will look for its first sweep of Princeton since 1984 in Jadwin Gym, in a game that will be televised on the YES Network. The Crimson can gain confidence from its 61-57 home win over the Tigers on February 5th, which broke a streak of 10 straight defeats against Princeton. That humiliating defeat, combined with one of the worst seasons in school history, will surely have the wounded Tigers in a nasty mood...
...writing was mournful, wounded, and intensely personal, even though the invective he hurled was superficial and the drugged-out trips painfully clichéd. He didn’t have the cold, analytical mind of Hersh (who admitted that he broke the My Lai story mostly because he lusted for the Pulitzer). Doc had the necessarily disappointed ideals of Kerouac and Bukowski. His writing always turned the knife, but never forgot the beating heart...