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...time they were able to finish their season, it was 8:19, it was dark, and it was seven hours after they had begun their rounds.The greens gave Harvard a lot of trouble throughout the tournament. The Bermuda grass and the heat combined to make the greens incredibly firm and fast, something that the team does not see back East.The Crimson, though, was able to take the unfamiliarity in stride.“Getting to go to a completely different part of the country and see the other competition,” Hazlett said. “That?...
...Riedel family has never stamped its name on a single bottle of wine. But over the past 50 years, this Austrian clan of master glassmakers has done more to enhance the oenophile's pleasure than almost any winemaking dynasty. The Riedel revolution began in the 1960s, when the firm created the world's first line of wine glasses shaped specifically for different grape varieties. Now Riedel has designed a new set of lead-crystal decanters inspired by the bird life of Murano, the Venetian island famed for its glassware. The three decanters boast an avian grace: the Swan's swooping...
...firm bidding for a bankrupt company like Pacific Lumber would have a greater need for a steady capital source in order to meet the acquired company’s obligations. The recent “credit crunch” has reduced the number of firms that would have access to such capital...
...Harvard’s second varsity crew raced similarly to the varsity eight against its Yale and Princeton counterparts. The Crimson came off the line strong, keeping up with the Bulldogs and the Tigers but ultimately failed to establish a firm base cadence from which to contest the rest of the race...
...both the providers and the audience, which means that the new culture includes people like Ji Lee, who “both know how [the system] works and. . .how to break it,” according to Connor. Ji Lee was once the artistic director for the global advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi. Now, he works as the branding director for Droga5, a boutique advertising agency, and as a culture jammer who “edits” street advertisements by putting speech bubble stickers on them that any passerby can fill in. It is an effort to allow the viewer...