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Despite the late-game jitters, how sweet success is for coach Tim Murphy and Harvard. Murphy can put the final feather in his inaugural cap--an Ivy League home victory--after three long seasons at the helm...
When he took the helm of Harvard football in December 1993, Murphy seemed like the person most qualified to return Harvard football to its former glory. Thirty-four months later, at the end of October 1996, with the reality of two or possibly three consecutive losing seasons on his hands, one wondered if the young football whiz kid recruited from Cincinnati could deliver...
...crossroads, and a lot of people are going to make the wrong decision," says Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of the Washington Post. "The conclusion they are drawing is to batten down the hatches, drastically downsize and become something other than a newspaper." Downie, admittedly at the helm of a profitable, family-controlled business, is keeping the faith. "I think the future of newspapers is in being newspapers...
Harvard University Police (HUPD) Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley, still in his first year at the helm, has tried to make community policing the buzz word in his department in hopes of increasing the level of protection around campus...
Director Hugh Wilson (Guarding Tess) took the helm and thought the script was "too fluffy." He proposed big changes (in his version, for example, Keaton's child is retarded). "I wanted to make it more realistic and, I thought, funnier," he recalls. "I was saying, 'It's too easy; they all have money. What does a woman do who doesn't have money? And why the hell do they just have two children [among them]?' I thought it should be more in line with the average person." Now he says in relief, "Thank God I got talked...