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...against some of the toughest competition in the nation.“I thought it was a very successful trip,” Crimson coach Erik Farrar said. “We played some very good polo, learned some valuable lessons both on success and failure. The whole idea is to get everybody ready for what really matters, because that’s when we need to be sharpest, but I’m very pleased with where we are.” Harvard hopes to take these new lessons into next Saturday’s games against Hartwick...
...another technological marvel - TV - that was keeping customers at home, getting drama, variety shows and old films for free. Movie houses were turned into video amusement parks: the image on the giant screens was suddenly wider (CinemaScope), grander (Cinerama), clearer (VistaVision) and deeper (3D) than ever before. The idea was to lure people back to theaters by giving them an experience that couldn't be duplicated in the living room. It didn't work: the number of tickets sold dropped from an all-time high of 4 billion in 1946 to about a billion a decade later. And though...
Some of the leeches go into Nikonov's own skin care range "Bio Energy," which is made at the Center. The most expensive product, an anti-aging cream, contains dried, freshly-hatched larvae and retails for 47,000 rubles ($1,300) for 15 grams. The idea for the cosmetic range came after the collapse of Communism, when pharmacies were no longer required to sell leeches. "We had no money and the staff would go several months without wages," says Nikonov. "We had too many leeches and we wanted to try and create something exciting and profitable." Nikonov explains that...
...bank. Citi also had an army of risk managers who probably reported to an executive who also ran a part of the company that was taking risks. Of course, it is fair to assume that the bank also had a chief financial officer who had an excellent idea of what Citi had on its balance sheet and in operations that it owned which had their own balance sheets. (Read "Is Citibank Really Out of the Woods...
...seeking to cover what they describe as France's involvement in aiding, arming, and assisting the Hutu genocide effort, insisting Paris wants to cleanse its own guilt by casting Tutsi rebels who halted the massacre as the culprits behind it. Critics in the DRC see Sarkozy's resource-sharing idea as a French plan to get back into Rwandan good graces at Congo's expense. (See more pictures of Congo...