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Harvard has been chronically unable to break the hammerlock that Penn and Princeton have held on the Ivy League title. The only member of the league that has failed to bring home at least one championship banner, the Crimson has merely looked on as either Penn or Princeton has won every crown in the past 16 seasons. Harvard has reason to believe, however, that it can reverse history in one fell swoop this weekend and shake up the Ancient Eight...
Harpest is just one of the small but growing number of consumers who are firing their local phone companies. Six long years after the Telecommunications Act was supposed to help break the Baby Bells' hammerlock on local phone service, competition in the residential market is finally starting to heat up--and the Bells' once dependable growth is cooling down. Thanks to newly aggressive state regulators who are forcing BellSouth, SBC Communications, Verizon and the much smaller Qwest to lease their networks to competitors at lower prices, rivals like AT&T and MCI are for the first time snapping up some...
...market for alternative beverages, those ubiquitous juices, teas, bottled waters, sports and energy drinks, packed with exotic herbs and vitamins, that are overwhelming store shelves. Quaker may be known for oatmeal, but its magic potion is Gatorade, a $2 billion-a-year dynamo of a brand that has a hammerlock on 80% of the sports-drink market. "When we're done," Gatorade chief Susan Wellington told analysts earlier this year, "tap water will be relegated to showers and washing dishes." Coming on the heels of Pepsi's recent $370 million purchase of SoBe, the hottest of the New Age tonics...
...last week that after going public with his allegations, Itai was in hiding, fearing that gangsters with sumo ties had put out a contract on his life. "I'm not afraid! I'm not hiding!" Itai protested. The Japan Sumo Association, Vatican-like in its secrecy, and with a hammerlock hold on the sport, has always denied charges of match fixing. (It refused interview requests from TIME last week.) But Itai isn't going down lightly. He has produced tapes he surreptitiously made during sumo meetings in 1989 and 1991. They suggest that, contrary to the association's denials...
...because of their vast wealth, continued to swim the halls in Dulles. The piped-in music may be the Eagles, and the furnishings may look as if the Ikea catalog had been redesigned by Antonio Gaudi, but deep down, AOL is about as New Age touchy-feely as a hammerlock. Sure, it used to be "ponytails, tattoos and surfboards," recalls Mark Walsh, a former senior vice president of AOL who now runs the business-to-business e-commerce site VerticalNet, but "AOL became the most aggressive company in the Internet business--and, as a result, the most successful...