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...number of attempts was the quality of the shots that the Big Green was allowed—nearly all of its came from the perimeter, even when Harvard was down two men on the penalty kill—that was truly different than the Vermont game. And the credit for that belongs to a penalty-kill unit that, despite playing without its top blue-liner Welch, shutdown one of the ECAC’s best power play units and its second-best offense...
...business to a company that specialized in that activity. At first it was ancillary functions like running the cafeteria or cleaning the offices. Then it started moving up to corporate-service functions. Why operate a call center if what you really do, your core competence, is run a credit-card business? So credit-card companies hired independent call centers to take over the phones, and that industry put down roots in places like Omaha, Neb., which early on had a fiber-optic hub. But as the price of information technology fell and the Internet exploded, capacity began popping up around...
...France, Italy and Germany - have come up with three different solutions. In an attempt to stop the hemorrhaging of production cash and talent out of France, the government has upped its funding for national film and TV production by 5.9% to €504 million and created a new tax credit that came into effect at the start of the year, which gives producers a discount of roughly 20% of their film costs. The hope is that filmmakers and investors can be seduced into producing export-quality films from home. And to make sure everyone outside the country knows about these...
...Credit Where Credit Is Due: Why be uniformly negative when you can find one semi-positive aspect of this year’s awards which can be given at least some halfhearted partial praise? In a year when the third Lord of the Rings movie will win Best Picture despite failing to give a coherent structure or psychological basis to its plot (why get hung up on details?), the academy was at least smart enough to recognize Johnny Depp and Keisha Castle-Hughes for making deceptively difficult roles look easy. Depp has been around forever, contributing sensitive performances in challenging...
Despite Harvard’s shortcomings, Bergmann is creating something that affects the lives of like-minded students—she has begun two new for-credit dance classes...