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Harvard knows that all too well, as last year, the Crimson also held the number two ranking in its regional, but was upset at home by Ohio State in the first round. Harvard will try to prove last year’s lapse of confidence was only a fluke by dispatching the lower-seeded Maryland...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Tennis To Host Once Again | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...good news that no one could dismiss as a lucky fluke. The Department of Labor last week announced that consumer prices rose a mere .2% in September, the same rate as for the past four months. Largely because of declining food and energy prices, inflation is now running at an annual pace of just 2.3%, its lowest level since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Nov. 4, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only 30 IUs of vitamin E, and this has long been shown to be a safe amount. And 400 IUs may yet prove to be fine. For complicated statistical reasons, the heart-failure finding could easily be a fluke, the study's coordinating investigator readily admits. What it all boils down to is this: vitamin E probably doesn't prevent heart disease. That doesn't mean it's useless. There is strong evidence from other studies that moderately high doses of vitamin E may delay the onset of macular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vitamin E-Gads | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only 30 IUs of vitamin E, and this has long been shown to be a safe amount. And 400 IUs may yet prove to be fine. For complicated statistical reasons, the heart-failure finding could easily be a fluke, the study's coordinating investigator readily admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

...dissent. Later, in 1989, she was appointed spokeswoman for the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first democratically elected Prime Minister. Niezabitowska's charisma and no-nonsense demeanor stood in marked contrast to the colorless apparatchiks who had given up power just a few months before. It was no fluke that Niezabitowska became the face of Poland's Third Republic: she symbolized a clean break with the country's communist past. Or did she? Today, that break looks a lot messier. Niezabitowska, 56, is one of tens of thousands of Poles who, in the past few months, have been accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reckoning | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

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