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...event, two Crimson wrestlers, sophomore J.P. O’Connor and junior co-captain Louis Caputo, advanced to the semifinals, finishing second and fifth, respectively. O’Connor, the No. 2 seed, wrestled third seed Lance Palmer of Ohio State in the semifinal at 149 lb. and pulled off a close 4-3 decision victory. In the final, O’Connor faced No. 5 seed Darrion Caldwell of North Carolina State. Caldwell had already upset No. 1 seed Ryan Churella of Michigan in dominating fashion, 12-3, in the semifinal. O’Connor fell in a much...
...over the Solomon Islands--even though his own plane was nearly out of gas and he knew he could not make it back to base. He swam eight miles to an island, where one indigenous tribe traded him to another--which helped ferry him to safety--for a 10-lb. sack of rice. DeBlanc was awarded the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart and other decorations...
...mixed group of battle-tested veterans and newly recruited talents. On a Saturday morning at Koehler Fieldhouse, sophomore J.P. O’Connor, the only Harvard freshman to earn All-American honors in program history, started right where he left off. Ranked third in the nation at 149 lb., O’Connor went 6-0 and finished first in a tournament that had to be cut short because of the large number of participants. Wrestlebacks were canceled, meaning that those who were knocked out before the semifinals had no chance to compete in a consolation bracket. Although junior...
...surviving today," says Ambootia Tea chairman Sanjay Bansal, who says he has turned around 11 dying tea estates. "That's how I'm able to demand ridiculous prices for my teas." Darjeeling tea, for instance, can be sold for up to 10 times the typical $3.54 per lb. ($1.61 per kg) for other Indian teas, and Ambootia's Brumes d'Himalaya, a "first flush," or spring-harvest, tea, sold at a high-end boutique in Paris two years ago for $727 per lb...
...Mart wants to tailor about 10% of each store's merchandise to the neighborhood--a long-unrealized goal. Given the company's appetite for goods, its buyers' primary focuses have been price and logistics: How do you get millions of 20-lb. (8 kg) bags of dog food delivered to 3,500 stores efficiently? They're good at that. They're not so good at figuring out what to do when shoppers in Dallas don't buy the giant bags of dog food that they've become so expert at supplying. What if doggie apparel is just as sellable...