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...meetings Holland holds. But the Globe also described e-mails from two administrators of the business school at Brigham Young University, the Mormon school that is Romney's alma mater, who used office computers to solicit support for the campaign. The two were told by B.Y.U.'s counsel to knock it off, although Romney later said it made sense to raise money from people he knows, including alumni...
...here's the dilemma: If Nissan doesn't knock out consumers with beautiful, sculpted steel or impress them with new technologies, how will it stand out? Some analysts think it won't. "Ghosn came in and turned a carmaker on the verge of bankruptcy into a company with operating margins around 8%," says Tatsuo Yoshida, an auto analyst with UBS in Tokyo. "He turned the company into a sustainable one. That is a huge improvement, but that is perhaps the limit of Nissan...
...think we’re blowing this whole thing out of proportion: that’s bulltitty. Yale is the worst college ever. It’s worse than most community colleges, including Amish ones. Imagine a whole campus of Amish, and then imagine sneaking onto it and knocking over all of the newly erected barns. That’s what it’s gonna feel like when we knock over Yale’s quarterback and burn his pant-less scrotum with our boiling hot wisdom butter...
...college game, stands just 19’9 away from the basket (as opposed to 23’9 in the NBA). While this has affected the style of collegiate play in general, causing a natural selection away from traditional, lumbering pivotmen towards players better suited to knock down the trifecta, the effect has become even more pronounced in the Ivy League. The nature of the level of competition and the limited national exposure in the Ivies means the league is unable to attract the biggest, most skilled frontcourt players or the quickest, most athletic guards, who invariably sign with...
...There’s just no way to get in the freshman year the poise and experience they have now.”This will be the first time that all five sophomores have been healthy at the same time—a fact that will make the girls knock on wood faster than you can say “two torn menisci.” Forward Katie Rollins, who established herself last season as one of the league’s most talented low-post players, missed the first ten games of last season recuperating from off-season...