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...order to accomplish that objective, Harvard will have to face defending Ivy champ Princeton and last year's runner-up Brown on the road, and will have to contend with strong teams from Yale and Cornell at home...
This year more so, for there is reason to believe. The Sox have what may be the best team in the game. In a golden age of shortstops, they have one of the finest in Nomar Garciaparra, the defending American League batting champ who was hitting .387 as of Saturday. They have a new hero in center fielder Carl Everett, picked up in the off-season and now hitting .329, with 22 homers and 63 runs batted in. They have budding stars in right fielder Trot Nixon and catcher Jason Varitek and a dominating ninth-inning pitcher in Derek Lowe...
When it comes to the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, never bet against the home-schooled kids. This year's champ, GEORGE ABRAHAM THAMPY, 12, and the top two runners-up take their lessons at home, where subjects like Latin, long dormant in public schools, fill the time most kids squander socializing. But George is a standout even in the rarefied air of the bee circuit. In two previous attempts, he tied for fourth and third places in the spelling contest, and two weeks ago, he came in second in the National Geography Bee. With the spelling title--which George...
...many women's hockey fans. Harvard (21-5-3, 17-4-3 ECAC) had been ranked No. 1, 2 or 3 in the national polls almost every week of the season. The Crimson was the defending champ and had beaten the other teams that had the top ranking (Northeastern and Brown) as well as the team that eventually won the national championship (Minnesota...
Despite GM's amazing record, we can be quite confident that the company will not lead the FORTUNE 500 we publish next April. Barring calamity or another jump in oil prices, the new champ will be Wal-Mart, already the world's largest retailer by a mile. Like some cyborg athlete, Wal-Mart moves at a pace that would kill most of its competitors and somehow keeps it up while growing bulkier...