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...line" continued to excel, Harvard punished Lafayette both mentally and physically. The offense rolled off scoring drives of 59, 80 and 51 yards, respectively. At that point, the game was over...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ra-Hooligan: Gotta Give Credit to That O-Line | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...genius. Since he took only three months to write the source code, Fanning says he didn't have time to make it more complicated. He had to learn Windows programming in addition to Unix server code, which he had taught himself. It is exceedingly rare for one programmer to excel at client and server applications, but Fanning had no choice. "I had to focus on functionality, to keep it real simple," he says in his gravelly monotone. "With a few more months, I might have added a lot of stuff that would have screwed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Napster | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...operate Harvard University. Because of women's historically limited opportunities and academic institutions' widespread resistance to women breaking through their ranks, not many females will be eligible for the presidential position. But there certainly are women who have defied the institutions that had previously denied them the opportunity to excel in academic administration, and those laudable women should be the top nominees...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: A Ms. at Mass. Hall | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

...Because some friends of your rival clubbed you on the knee a month before the big skate. And maybe the real or imagined slight goads the grudging one to greatness. Revenge spurs nearly every movie plot; why shouldn't it juice the adrenaline that an athlete needs to excel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Gold-Medal Grudges | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...content to excel in academia, Schultz, 44, has also been busy founding companies: Affymax (1988), to hunt for new drugs; Symyx Technologies (1994), to develop advanced materials; SyrrX (2000), to sell protein structures to drug companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Combinatorial Chemistry: Doing It Nature's Way | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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