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...heroic effort, a really unified effort,” freshman coach Bill Manning said. “Probably the best batch of 19-year-olds on the water today.”Heavily-favored Washington, featuring not only an Olympian but also members of the German and Canadian under-23 teams, jumped out to an early lead in the freshman eight grand final and never looked back. Thus the bulk of the drama involved the fight for the second place, as the field remained even for the first 300 meters. The Crimson got off to an unfavorable start, finding itself...
Your book also notes how whiskey labels are like historic artifacts. Canadian Club's history, for example, is closely tied with the Prohibition and Al Capone. One of the things that Canadian Club is realizing now is the fact that as they get further away from the Prohibition era, and those ties to gangsters, they can use that now as a marketing tool. Part of that is this rebellious nature of whiskey - there are more tall tales of whiskey than you'll see in wine or beer combined, I'm willing to bet. They want to make it larger than...
...Prudential spokesperson acknowledged that this figure is "reasonably accurate." But other insurers named in the study strongly dispute its claims. The NEJM letter states that, for instance, Canadian firm Sun Life Financial, which offers life, health and disability insurance, holds just over $1 billion in tobacco investments. In an e-mail to TIME, however, Sun Life spokesman Michel Leduc called this number "categorically incorrect." Although he would not disclose specific holdings, Leduc said that of the company's $100 billion investment portfolio, less than 0.005% was exposure to tobacco stocks. "Sun Life's investments in renewable-energy projects are over...
...guide for deciding between Harvard or Yale. She eventually opted for Boston and Cambridge’s legendary bluegrass scene.By the time Brown enrolled at Harvard as a freshman, she had already recorded an album, toured the nation with fiddler Stuart Duncan, and won the Canadian National Banjo Championship.Brown has traveled a unique path to become a Grammy Award-winning artist and co-founder of a record label, Compass Records.But though she first picked up the instrument when she was ten, it was not until 1987 that she was able to make it her profession.PRODIGAL ROOTSBrown’s first...
...frequent and destructive in recent years. One form of hacking - the denial-of-service (DoS) attack - has apparently even become a tool of war. The attacks are designed to paralyze websites, financial networks and other computer systems by flooding them with data from outside computers. A 15-year-old Canadian with the handle "mafiaboy" launched the first documented DoS attack in 2000, against numerous e-commerce sites, including eBay and Amazon.com, shutting some down and wreaking havoc that cost an estimated $1.7 billion. In 2007, entities believed to have been associated with the Russian government or its allies launched...