Word: hurts
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...doesn't hurt for institutions to make a commitment," Wechsler said. "But what ensues in the next few years will allow you to tell whether this is a p.r. gesture or a sincere effort...
...Crimson was also hurt in the rebounding department. Harvard opened the game in a 2-3 zone defense, leaving it susceptible to St. Peter's perimeter shooting and making it difficult for the Crimson to box out the Peahens' athletic for- wards. St. Peter's outrebounded Harvard by 12in the first half and 10 for the game...
Armed men have surrounded the hilltop hideaway at 255 Ridgecrest Road again. The fugitive, a break-in specialist, won't come out. "I want the s.o.b. to feel some pain," special agent Steve Searles tells two cops with pump shotguns. "I want you to put some hurt on him." Nothing happens when Searles fires his pistol. Nor when he bangs loudly on the porch with a baseball bat. He tries pepper spray, yelling, "Hey, hey, come on out of there! You can't stay there...
Police Chief Michael Donnelly recalls standing by one night as "eight or nine bears climbed inside some Dumpsters and threw out food that coyotes fought over in a frenzy." He worried about children getting hurt. But killing pesky bears on public-safety grounds raised ethical problems. So he turned to Searles, a local glass contractor experienced in hunting and trapping who once solved a local coyote problem by killing a marauding pack's alpha males...
Unfortunately for Microsoft, the patient isn't even bleeding. Bill Gates' famously evasive testimony and the parade of Microsoft's victims have hurt the company, at least in the eyes of the press. But the case's central tenet--that Microsoft illegally leveraged its operating-systems monopoly--still stands, whatever AOL does with Netscape. Even before the $4.2 billion buyout was announced, government economist Frederick Warren-Boulton was framing it as more evidence of Microsoft's strong-arming. "Netscape has been forced to the wall," he said. "That's an unfortunate outcome of what Microsoft has been doing." Touche...