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...realize that they aren't really doing much, you think that there may be a reason no one has done it before. The most remarkable thing about the act was seeing Hungarian fourth-generation circus performer Istvan Toth, who stands 27 inches tall, almost completely hidden by the flock...
Given the history and rich success of Harvard hockey since the team's inception in 1897, it is hardly a surprise that numerous talented athletes flock to the Crimson each year. With two dozen Ivy League championships, 12 ECAC titles, and the 1989 NCAA Division I Championship, under former coach and current athletic director William Cleary '56, Harvard's tradition of superior college hockey makes it both a perennial contender and a prime location for NHL scouts...
...Students "with a flare for math" flock to computer science, says Hutchinson, to hone their skills for lucrative careers in the field...
...heard all the bad news about third-quarter earnings," says tech investor Kevin Landis, portfolio manager at Firsthand Funds. "The good news comes next." Landis expects investors to come back into tech stocks fairly soon, though he doubts they'll flock back into the old bellwethers Intel and Microsoft, which in the minds of some of the tech savvy are on the verge of becoming also-rans. A new list of tech bellwethers is developing, agrees Jeff Applegate, market strategist at Lehman Brothers. It includes networking and e-commerce facilitators like EMC, JDS Uniphase, BEA Systems, Corning and Siebel Systems...
There is an inverse relationship between the size of Koetsu's work and the scale of his cultural resonance. These tiny, fugitive-looking images, in which luminous fragments of nature--pines bowing before a wind, the undulation of a flock of cranes--were painted in colored inks on handmade paper by his collaborator Tawaraya Sotatsu and then written over by Koetsu, have acquired, for Japanese taste, the sort of cardinal importance that a fresco cycle or an altarpiece might have for ours. Koetsu's work, given the accumulated Japanese reactions to it, is perhaps the ultimate example of the power...