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These four families rose fast and fell hard. Meticulous research culled from courthouse records, archives and interviews with descendants of the Big Four make The Big Rich a page-turning tale with well developed characters that seems boxed up and ready for the silver screen. It's impossible to read this book and not think of the 2007 film There Will Be Blood, which put the ruthless business of land rights and oil drilling into sharp focus. Burrough's tome, though, is broader and explores not just the greed, wealth and risk of early twentieth century American oil prospecting...
...mentality at Blodgett Pool this weekend for the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team, but in the end, the team effort fell just short.Powered by a few individual stars, Princeton (6-0, 6-0 Ivy) held off the Crimson (6-1, 6-1), 170.5-148.5, in head-to-head competition at the annual HYP double-dual meet. Harvard handily beat Yale (5-4, 3-3), 232-87.“We swam absolutely the best that we could swim,” Crimson coach Stephanie Morawski said. “We had a game plan...
...definitely going have a good four years ahead of him.” With the women’s alpine team captain out due to injury, the team struggled against other competition in both the Giant Slalom and Slalom events. In the Giant Slalom, freshman Caroline McHugh fell in her second run after posting a time of 1:23:33, earning no points for the team. In the Slalom, McHugh managed to complete her two runs, but finished 49th with an overall time of 2:00.11. The men’s Classic Sprints event featured junior Trevor Petatch, who paved...
Even without doing the math, you probably get that the government's financial-rescue effort is failing. The signs are hard to miss. Your friend in finance got pink-slipped. A house sale down the street fell through because the buyer couldn't get a mortgage. A local bank is closing a nearby branch or maybe shutting down altogether...
...halal stickers for food and beverage products. The Council has the sole authority to issue halal certificates - a stamp that can make or break a product in this 85% Muslim market. And while some praised the group for taking on the tobacco lobby in its antismoking efforts, the clerics fell short of banning the habit outright - not surprising in a country where cigarette companies employ tens of millions of people and are among the biggest sources of tax revenues for the government. (Read "In the Mecca of Celebrity Yoga...