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Facing a youthful Boston College team, the No. 6 Harvard women’s hockey team cruised to victory in the Beanpot championship last night to earn its seventh straight Beanpot title...
...season on hold stated it has been "devastating for the more than 730 players left jobless." You cannot be serious! Don't expect anyone to feel sorry for these overpaid, greedy, arrogant athletes. Most of them make more money in a year than the majority of their fans earn in a lifetime. The players' exorbitant paychecks and the resulting sky-high ticket prices are putting the game out of reach for many fans. The NHL players' refusal to accept a salary cap caused many people in the hockey support industry - vendors, arena staff, employees of sports bars - to lose their...
...bedroom one day and said, 'Mom, I joined the Army Reserve today.' And I said, 'Oh, Matt, you didn't. Why did you do it, especially at this time?' He was old enough so there wasn't anything I could do." Matt told her he signed up to earn money for school. Carolyn, 57, said they could have managed college without his enlisting. "I don't want to manage, Mom," he told her. "I want to get it done." He soon headed off to basic training at Fort Jackson...
...rookie on the Crimson this year, Scherf made an immediate splash in the college cross-country scene by becoming only the seventh Harvard women to earn All-American honors after placing 38th at the NCAA Championships at Indiana State in late November...
That image of entrepreneurialism in flower is very different from the conventional view of a destitute Hermit Kingdom. By most measures, North Korea remains one of the most isolated and desperate outposts on the planet. Most North Koreans earn barely enough to feed their families, and the country is plagued by chronic shortages of everything from food to fuel to electricity. But in recent years modest reforms aimed at liberalizing the economy have helped pry open the country just enough for its people to glimpse the possibilities of a better life. In many parts of the country, North Koreans were...