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This year, Sullivan finally gets to play hisown recruits--and by extension, he is on triallike never before. Is the 6-20 record a fluke?Harvard, with its diverse student body from acrossthe country, has many basketball fans waiting fora winning team, and Sullivan has failed to inspirethem...
...degreesF, plunging the planet back into ice-age conditions, and stayed there for tens or hundreds of years before recovering. And the changes happened not over centuries, as scientists would have predicted, but in as little as a decade. The tranquillity of recent centuries may be a climatic fluke...
...Ford's sales operations, just raised his estimate of industry sales for the third time this year. "We're still trying to assess what's going on here," Rewey says. "While there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the economy, we don't think this is a fluke. We're happy to be back and selling autos...
...what had stopped women for so long -- the sense that it was one thing to be the smartest student in the class but another to have that undefinable something men insist it takes to be a top-notch lawyer. She did not think her early success was a fluke nor exclusion her fate, and this most unlikely of firebrands took one of the few clerkships offered, for a district court judge in New York. She went on to teach at Rutgers while litigating sex-discrimination cases in her spare time...
...chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has made in public and private that have blown large holes in the listing hulk of fellow Democrat Bill Clinton's economic package. Moynihan is not a conventional party leader. The Hill's loyal opposition has whispered that he is "chairman by fluke." Even Democrats were stunned when former committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen accepted the job as Secretary of the Treasury, which moved Moynihan to the mountaintop, an unproven leader. In fact, Moynihan is the Senate's most eccentric, brilliant and fearless purveyor of uncomfortable truth. He has probably shaped as much national social...