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...story she did not write about a crime that may not have been committed. But nothing about the case involving Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was sent to jail last week for contempt of court, or TIME's Matthew Cooper, who avoided the same fate at the last minute, has been simple...
While she has to leave such matters to fate and lady luck (and as many fan votes as she can get), some things will take care of themselves. The ESPY’s, for instance, will provide Corriero’s outfit for the award show...
...Harvard Men’s lightweight crew team, faced our fate as most would: at first with denial (“they won’t really make us race Cambridge first, right?”), then with anger (“this is just ridiculous”), next with resignation (“there’s absolutely no way we can beat that crew”), and finally with small glimmers of confidence (“maybe we can surprise them”) interspersed with vain hopes of spectacular reversals (“maybe they?...
...still not sure what to make of our experience. The dissatisfaction that comes with seeing a month of hard work lost in a few seconds is hard to describe, much less deal with. We were David; we were supposed to get the lucky breaks. Fate, and the elements, were supposed to be under our control. But life doesn’t always work like that, and history will remember our encounter with Cambridge—only the sixth time that Harvard and Cambridge have ever rowed against one another at Henley—the way it appears in the official...
...Bowles' great-great-grandfather Samuel Elliott White and great-grandfather Leroy Springs. Her father William Close took the company public in 1966. But by the time Bowles became CEO in 1998, the Southern textile industry was under siege from imports. A financial analyst by training (and political wife by fate--she's married to Erskine Bowles, once chief of staff under President Bill Clinton), Bowles understood that to remain competitive, Springs had to restructure, cut domestic production and run a more efficient operation. First she took the company private again, in September 2001, for $1.2 billion. The family...