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Harvard captain Noah Welch’s contributions to Friday’s 4-1 win over Union don’t exactly leap from the stat box. One shot, a penalty for cross-checking and a front-row view of the Dutchmen’s lone goal. But at least one person in attendance found Welch’s performance to be nothing short of award-winning—Union coach Nate Leaman...
...film takes another temporal leap forward and we find Alice, Dan, Larry and Anna all at an exhibition of Anna’s photography. Having not seen each other in a year, Dan approaches Anna once more and this time his advance becomes the catalyst that drives a series of wicked betrayals and abandonment as the four characters become deeply connected. The lovers occupy a universe where passion reigns over reason and disorder is inevitable; each greedily takes what he or she momentarily desires while delivering perfectly placed words intended to cause maximum hurt to another as they all struggle...
...Faculty measured 676 at the beginning of the year, a leap beyond last year’s 656 and the previous year’s 636. This rate of growth makes Kirby confident that the Faculty will soon outstrip older growth goals...
...ultimate success of the Kmart-Sears merger will depend in large part on whether Kmart has already made a leap to greatness before the merger and, equally, whether acquiring Sears meets these three tests. While I am not an expert on Kmart, its recent exceptional results indicate that it might be a sustained good-to-great case in the making. Yet at the same time, we should be mindful of the lessons of history. No single step, no matter how big, can by itself make a company great...
...Collins is author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't. He operates a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colo...