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Just two years ago, the team experienced what might rank as its greatest season ever. It went 13-3-2, breezed to the league title and basically established the Crimson as a legitimate contender in national field hockey circles. Coming after a 10-6-0 season in 1989 and an...
Epps, who has seen five deans of the college come and go during his tenure, was a leading contender both in 1985, When Jewett was given the job, and in 1976.
Barry Diller, QVC Network chairman and a failed contender for Paramount. Starting up Q2, a second, allegedly hipper shopping channel aimed at Generation X consumers who are presumably uninterested in cubic zirconium. Reported to be planning a takeover run at Time Warner, but denies these rumors as "silly nonsense."
What any good executive can expect is that success breeds imitation. Where Disney and Warner go, competitors will follow. Sony, which owns the Columbia Pictures library, has opened high-tech prototype stores in its Manhattan headquarters that emphasize the parent company's electronic equipment but also feature bibelots from current...
His welcoming ceremony for the new contender, however, turned into a melee, and the boy spent the next few weeks under the guard of 300 monks and 400 combat-ready Europeans from a militant Buddhist school run by a Danish ex- boxer. Meanwhile, each side has hinted darkly that the...