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...Consider the lineup: Paul O'Neill, the onetime Alcoa boss, was brought in by Vice President Dick Cheney chiefly to make then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan happy. The three men had worked closely in the Ford White House, and Cheney thought he was bringing the band back together. But reunion tours don't work much better in government than they do in rock 'n' roll, and O'Neill, who had a flair for candor that matched Cheney's for secrecy, quit - or was fired, depending on whose account you believe - after two shaky years...
...Maybe this is just an off-year for international cinema. About this lineup, Cannes' Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremeaux might mount the usual defense you hear from film festival programmers: "We can discover good films, but we can't invent them...
...first 1,000 meters to both Yale and Princeton, only to storm back in the final 500 to pull within a seat of the victorious Bulldogs—make the Crimson’s prospects at Lake Quinsigamond as unpredictable as was the boat’s lineup during the dual season...
While Navy has been consistent, its second varsity undefeated and its varsity with just one loss, the Harvard varsity program has endured the most turbulent of dual seasons—lineup changes, unexpected losses, the ups-and-downs that were never at issue in last year’s brilliant run to and beyond Lake Quinsigamond...
...varsity since 2001, and Princeton demolished dual competition in a blur of lopsided open-water wins.But Harvard has had three weeks to fine-tune, seat race, and harness speed—a luxury that is impossible in the back-to-back frenzy of dual season. A series of lineup changes and substitutions due to injury have left Harvard with different lineups, a move both boats credit to increased speed and improved rhythm in the weeks leading up to Sprints. “As much as it’s easy to look at rankings and times between races, the sheer...