Word: golds
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...season is really a new one for women's collegiate hockey. This is the first season of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Women's Division I League, which welcomes two more schools to the old ECAC Women's Alliance. With three players from the gold-medal U.S. Olympic team and two from the silver-winning Canadian team making their way from Nagano back to the northeast this winter, the ECAC should be more competitive and more fun to watch...
Despite Harshbarger's pledge to keep the state's budget balanced, his failure to take a no-new taxes pledge was a political gold mine for Cellucci...
What The Crimson fails to mention is that it was in the days of the legendary "Gold Coast" dormitories--luxurious buildings built to accommodate Harvard's wealthiest students--that the seeds of the Harvard House system were first sown. President A. Lawrence Lowell recognized that a great evil lurked in the rise of these private dorms; he dubbed them "an enemy to democracy." As early as 1913, Lowell authorized the construction of new freshman houses along the river. Students were eventually drawn away from the Gold Coast dorms...
...critical point here it that it was precisely the homogeneity of the Gold Coast dorm--the-fact that the "Gold-Coasters" were a self-selected and elite group--that ultimately led to the establishment of Harvard's House system in the 1930's. When, by the 1990's, the Houses bore "too much character," or, what is another way of saying too much exclusivity, the Houses themselves became doomed to reformation through randomization...
...still predominant in the man who was hired to pilot Netscape through Microsoft-infested waters--and who, on the witness stand, is proving to be Bill Gates' worst enemy. John Doerr, the venture capitalist and Johnny Appleseed of Silicon Valley who helped recruit Barksdale, refers to him as the "gold standard of CEOs...