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...first squared off. AT&T has been broken up into eight smaller pieces in the largest corporate split-up in U.S. history. MCI has grown rapidly. Its sales have spurted from $7 million in the mid-'70s to $2 billion, and it is AT&T's largest long-distance competitor...
...League are making money. The National Basketball Association has bounced back from its huge losses of the early 1980s, but eight of the league's 23 teams are still in the red. Even the mighty National Football League has been under a bit of pressure from its pesky new competitor, the United States Football League. Concludes Paul Mooney, president of the Boston Bruins hockey team: "Sports teams, by and large, are not bonanzas...
...Drudge Report marks its 10th year of headline gathering, bloggers are wondering what to make of a new, more tabloidish competitor called Sploid. The mission of the site, launched last week by GAWKER publisher Nick Denton, includes "sniffing out hypocrisy and absurdity, whether from salon left or religious right." STANDARD DEVIANCE lauded Sploid for having "the same sort of screaming ridiculous headlines as [Drudge] but without the right-wing hysteria." UNCORRELATED noted a hurdle in terms of scoops for an upstart with no G.O.P. ties: "Being out of power means being out of the loop...
Elliot S. Tarloff ’05 is being hailed on the policy debate list-serv as an exemplary loser—an admirable competitor whose grace underscores the importance of dignity and good sportsmanship...
...He’s just such a great competitor in big games,” he said. “It’s a tribute to him that he’s battled through what most people probably would have found as an excuse. I’m proud to be able to say I coached Tom Cavanagh...