Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Harney took his fateful shot to tie the game. St. Lawrence Coach Joe Marsh had already scripted his post-game speech. Despite leading by only one, Harvard had such command of the game that the final half-minute seemed pro forma...
...energy, MSO grabbed the audience's attention from the very beginning. Lehmann himself performed a solo, Violin Concerto in G by Haydn, with the orchestra accompanying. As the strings echoed and flourished the soloist's line, it was evident that MSO not only had energy but also a thorough command over style and technique. The highlight of the evening came at the end with Ottorino Respighi's The Birds, a piece incorporating the voices of four birds. MSO charmed the audience as it took on the voices of these birds one by one. From the graciousness of the dove...
...future, Beauregard hopes HCS will create an on-line facebook including all Harvard undergraduates. She also imagines that a "finger-able laundry machine" may one day enable students to type in a command that would give the status of all the laundry machines in a given House...
Where is all this dumb money? Much of it is in Internet stocks, most of which command stratospheric prices despite their lack of profits and their dubious prospects. In a seminal event for these stocks' valuations, high-flying portal company Lycos last week agreed to merge with USA Networks, a real company (Home Shopping Network; Ticketmaster) with $1.5 billion in annual revenue. Lycos shares plunged 31% in two days as investors reflected on Lycos' value inside a company that must--gasp--post rising profits to boost its share price...
Then what? Starr will be able to command hefty sums practicing law, writing a book, giving lectures or advising corporate boards. And he will probably indulge his passion for teaching, as he planned to do in 1997 when he accepted a dual deanship at Pepperdine University, only to bow out and lose the opportunity after he was accused of abandoning ship. Whatever job Starr ends up taking instead, will he ever be able to shake his sense of unfinished business left behind...