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Microsoft's carefully crafted appeal of the federal antitrust case decided against the company earlier this year resembled nothing so much as a post-game press conference in the aftermath of a particularly hard-fought sports contest where the underdog has, miraculously, come...
...their heritage through its Main Street program, and most of the 1,500 communities on board sent representatives to workshops in Boston, where the opening ceremony turned into a pep rally for the resurrection of the American downtown. The room was filled with stories of vacant storefronts reopening, of hard-fought triumphs over ridiculous zoning restrictions and blockheaded indifference to architectural heritage, of seniors moving like yuppies into hip lofts above Main Street shops. "We're a discard society," Moe told me that day. "But a lot of people are now seeing the value of preserving the best of what...
...another in the litany of stock responses that reporters get by the dozen: "We played our game today," "We were able to execute," "We had a lot of positive team energy," or the chestnut so moldy it was banned from the Crimson sports page--"It was a real hard-fought win." As Red Sox manager Jimy Williams is fond of saying about his favorites, "Trot Nixon, he's a real baseball player." And so on ad nauseam...
...Class of 1975 faced a different kind of challenge from its predecessors. While many of the hard-fought battles students had waged in the late 1960s--from civil rights to Vietnam--were over, a new one was emerging over Radcliffe College. During the early 1970s the role of Radcliffe and its students changed rapidly at Harvard...
Vieques protests, like that in Boston last weekend (News, May 8),.represent the thoughts of a noisy but microscopic minority of just 4 percent of Puerto Rico residents. The majority accept the hard-fought arrangement negotiated by Governor Rosell and President Clinton for the eventual exit of the Navy in 3 years...