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Despite the presidents’ strong desire to keep Ivy League football sheltered from the national stage, the conference has begun to flourish. This year, Ivy League football has had more than ten games televised either regionally or nationally. In fact, this year’s Harvard-Yale game will be carried by the national cable channel WGN out of Chicago. This television explosion is the culmination of a trend which has led Ivy League football back to national prominence. And the quality of play has risen too. In the last few years Harvard and Penn have spent time...
...free. But by the end of the week, the idea had been withdrawn; apparently, it would have illegal for MIT to broadcast the files—3,500 CDs worth of music—that had been purchased for this purpose. As file-sharing download systems continue to flourish on the web, however, it is clear that the music industry needs to abandon the methods it has used in the past—regulation and litigation—and develop new ways to generate revenue in a world of high-speed Internet connections. The plan developed by the students down...
Generations of superheroes can’t be wrong. Enter a room with a flutter. Leave with a flourish. Contain body heat on cold nights. Hide a dagger inside and be ready to pounce. Nobody messes with an armed man, and with a cape nobody can know for sure that you aren’t. Especially necessary if the codpiece fails to return...
...part of the inspection. It is too subjective, Crea says. But Benedetto insists. And neither Crea nor Trombetta can find fault with his excellent pizza, spaghetti vongole and grilled swordfish. "It was no different from Italy," Crea declares. After the limoncello, Benedetto appears and presents a fax, with a flourish. After several phone calls, hands flying, he has extracted a letter from the supplier promising that all the meat is from Italy. Then Benedetto, smiling and shouting good wishes, shows us to the door of his authentic Italian restaurant...
...main dishes arrive and are placed atop the table with a flourish. The fried clam platter is a heaping plate of crisp clams, seasoned French fries and homemade coleslaw. The traditional New England clambake takes up a good part of the table itself—the lobster is accompanied by mussels, clams, corn on the cob, potatoes, chorizo and an egg. The egg, Assistant General Manager Chris McGann explains, is a vestige of the olden days when the cook timed the steaming of the lobster by boiling an egg simultaneously. The yellowfin tuna steak is precisely cooked with a tender...