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BOSTON--The Harvard women's basketball team concluded its opening string of non-conference games with a flourish on Tuesday evening by posting a 70-57 win at Boston University...
...saved the world once in the fall of 1997, swooping in with rapid-fire cuts when the ruble imploded and Long Term Capital fell. He figured he was saving us again in 1999, this time from wage-induced inflation, with six rate hikes that ended with a half-point flourish in June 2000. And since he's been on a soft landing of his own, leaving rates alone while slowly climbing down from his inflation-watching perch...
...Alice Waters' famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and grower-champagne sections have been appearing on top restaurant wine lists around the country. Paul Grieco, beverage director of New York City's Gramercy Tavern, says, "The public's thirst for uniquely great products allows the smaller estates to flourish. They add luster to the polished sheen the Champagne region already wears...
Bruno and Michel are members of that awkward generation too young to be considered baby-boomers and too old to fit in with the Generation-Xers. They are, rather, the product of the hippie free love that was just beginning to flourish on both sides of Atlantic forty-odd years ago. Born to a loveless woman who leaves both sons with their respective grandparents in order to join a commune in California, Bruno and Michel become, essentially, the direct descendants of their age. Both dracins endure lonely and occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving...
...years later, the debate over exactly how the brain decides where to focus its visual energies continues to flourish...