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...Menick fumbles and an excess of penaltiesprevented Harvard from adding any more pointsuntil overtime, but overall the offense had life...
Wechsler found that students who drink to excess are more likely to fight, damage property and get arrested...
...Poison cost $350,000; the 1995 Safe came in at $1 million; and Velvet Goldmine is about a $9 million production. But what a production! There hasn't been such a smartly gaudy spectacle of musical raunch since Ken Russell's Tommy back in 1975, when the road to excess was carpeted in spangles...
...load 100 times as great as its net assets, or ownership capital. This would be like putting down $1,000 of your own money to buy a $100,000 house--in a flood plain on the San Andreas fault. "Most hedge-fund managers believe that a leverage ratio in excess of 50 to 1 is exceptionally large and very risky," says Hunt Taylor, executive director of Tass Management, a hedge-fund consulting firm...
...confessional, ultrapersonal TV. Hers was television that cared, that wanted to know, that wanted you to spill your feelings and your guts and just forget about the 15 million people or so watching. Today, of course, all of television wears the Stained Blue Dress of Confessional Excess. Winfrey used confessional TV to explore, to empathize, to try to figure out where people were coming from. Today people watch Jerry Springer to see a good fight, to see a lesbian throw a punch...