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Since July, a data-hungry user has downloaded from Factiva over 5 million articles, an amount so excessive that it jeopardized the University’s contract with the popular online research service. Yesterday, library administrators at Harvard Business School (HBS) blocked the conspicuous Harvard-network IP address from accessing Factiva and notified the suspected offender of the infringements...
...finish fifth in the Ivy League preseason media poll—one slot ahead of Harvard, travelled to Michigan last weekend. The Wolverines knocked off the Bears, 72-57.The Michigan squad graduated its three leading scorers from last season, including big man Courtney Sims, who recently signed a 10-day contract with the NBA’s Indiana Pacers. Michigan freshman guards Manny Harris and Kelvin Grady, both Amaker recruits, are expected to play big roles for the Wolverines this season. “It’s probably a bigger deal for [Amaker] and those players,” Harris...
...Manfred, baseball's lead labor lawyer. Still, the union thinks the meeting was suspect. Several press reports have also suggested that Commissioner Bud Selig - angry about both the scope of A-Rod's free agent demands and the timing of the opt-out from his New York Yankee contract (during the waning moments of this year's World Series, thus overshadowing the sport's signature event) - could be working the back rooms to keep A-Rod from scoring another pay raise. Manfred calls such allegations of tampering "totally unfounded...
...with $6 billion in revenues, and Rodriguez is coming off another monster season, but every GM can legitimately make the same case: the Rangers wildly overpaid for him back then. How many division titles did the Rangers win with Rodriguez on the team? Zero. The Yankees traded for that contract after the '03 season (he was set to make about $27 million per year on the last three years of that deal before he opted out), and how many World Series titles did they win with A-Rod? Zero. Meanwhile, the Colorado Rockies and Cleveland Indians - one team the National...
...source of non-termbill funds could be the “One Ring” program—a partnership between the UC and Harvard Student Agencies that gives undergraduates an opportunity to buy class rings. The contract for the program was renewed at last week’s meeting of the full UC, with the provision that “funds generated through the contract shall be placed into an account which shall be opened independently by the President of the Undergraduate Council...