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...middle mile, the Hoyas surged in the third mile to outlast the Crimson (15:45.32) by just under three seconds at 15:42.52. Penn, last year’s bronze medalist at IRAs, edged out Harvard by 0.15 seconds.“It didn’t feel as fast as it should have,” captain six-seat Dan Reid said. “We allowed ourselves to row at a lesser level than we are capable.”The lightweights’ second varsity entry finished 13th with a time of 16:01.95. RADCLIFFEThree former Radcliffe...
...Hunzicker recorded 64 assists. “We started making mistakes,” Weiss said, “but Columbia also started getting their system going, so we needed to execute even more so to earn our points.”Contributing to the Crimson’s fast start was freshman Kathryn McKinley, who returned from an injury, and put up 17 kills and 16 digs. After dominating the first game, Harvard won a close second game and looked well on their way to a sweep. In the third game, however, the Crimson could not recover from...
...plunged from 112,200 in 1985 to 29,700 today. Since 1985, the number of active workers covered in the private sector declined from 22 million to 17 million. They are the last members of what once promised to be the U.S.'s golden retirement era, and they are fast disappearing. From 2001 to 2004, nearly 200 corporations in the FORTUNE 1000 killed or froze their defined-benefit plans. Most recently, Hewlett-Packard, long one of the most admired U.S. companies, pulled the plug on guaranteed pensions for new workers. An HP spokesman said the company had concluded that "pension...
Cyberspace play offers other advantages, which can quickly turn beginners into practiced players. Online games are fast, and you can play far more hands in a month than would be possible in person. Also, without faces and bodies to read for tells--psychological clues to what's in an opponent's hand--players can concentrate on percentages and betting. They can take notes on how others bet and when they bluff. A click on most sites lets players set up opponent profiles. Players can also search all their own previous hands, comparing stats, for example, on the percentages of hands...
...chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and author of The Prize, the 1991 best seller about the history of oil: "There's a lot of technological innovation kind of bubbling that really has captured the imagination and obsession of a lot of people." The question is, Are we moving fast enough...