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...That Sony should have turned to a foreigner speaks worlds about how troubled the company's prospects have become. But last week's news was about much more than one man and one company. For if you wanted a symbol of Japan's astonishing rise from the ashes and defeat of World War II to its position as the second largest economy on earth-and a place of both broad-based prosperity and cultural creativity-then Sony...
...RETIRED. GARRY KASPAROV, 42, the world's top-ranked chess player since winning his first championship in 1985; in Moscow. A fierce, innovative competitor, Kasparov's victories were so numerous that his few losses were better known-like his 1997 defeat by a 1.2-ton IBM computer, Deeper Blue. "I am a man of big goals," the Russian grand master said upon his retirement, "but I no longer see any real goal in the world of chess." An outspoken opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kasparov said he would now spend more time focusing on politics...
Harvard, however, as the Bulldogs found out in the January rematch, is a different team now than it was in the fall, when the defeat at Yale set off a string of six losses in the span of a month. At the Bright Hockey Center in late January, the Crimson vengefully pasted Yale 11-2, delivering its biggest offensive output and largest margin of victory of the season...
...Harvard men’s volleyball team hit the road this weekend after wrapping up a five-game homestand with a defeat of New Haven on Wednesday...
...final frame, the Crimson was able to eke out a 16-14 victory and complete its come-from-behind defeat of the Violets...