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From this week's tidbit file comes this fact: the number-one spot on the Harvard-William & Mary series scoring list belongs to Madison "Maddy" Sayles '27, who had the game-winning touchdown in the 1925 game, which was played on Halloween...
...points allowed last Saturday were the least since a 28-0 shutout of Penn in 1983...Senior kicker Rob Steinberg had a career-long 43-yd. field goal last weekend and a career-high 11 punts. Steinberg is now tied for 10th on the all-time Harvard kick scoring list with 52 points...
...social value" he could find in rock "is that the words are inaudible." The P.M.R.C.'s Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, evoked a "proliferation of songs glorifying rape, sado-masochism, incest, the occult and suicide by a growing number of bands." Zappa announced that "the complete list of P.M.R.C. demands reads like an instruction manual for some sinister kind of toilet-training program to housebreak all composers and performers." Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans up its act, there might well be legislation." Singer Dee Snider showed up in tight...
...leaving Apple, Jobs becomes merely the latest in a long list of entrepreneurs who have been forced out of companies they founded. Michael Tushman, a professor at Columbia University's business school, estimates that only 10% of those who launch firms are able to survive the inevitable changes that come with rapid growth. Says Tushman: "The very characteristics that lead entrepreneurs to start companies--independence, innovation and a commitment to ideas--are the same ones that can cause their demise as managers. A mature firm cannot tolerate relentless turmoil or a tendency to dash off in all directions...
...message was monitored last week on a radio frequency normally used by pilots. It included a list of demands and a recording of what sounded like the voice of Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, the daughter of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who was abducted by unidentified gunmen in San Salvador on Sept. 10. "I'm fine, I'm fine, Papa," the woman said, explaining that she was a prisoner of the Pedro Pablo Castillo Command of the antigovernment Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...