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Beating Yale 86-77 and Princeton 119-44, the Crimson left little doubt as to who is number one. Even more impressive is that for Harvard, the victory was a mere stepping stone for loftier goals such as Easterns and NCAAs. HARVARD 86 YALE 77 HARVARD 119 PRINCETON...
...brilliantly patterned minutiae of daily life, the rewards of Nattel's research, that anchor the novel's loftier meanings. At muddy street level, Blaszka is stuck in poverty and provincial darkness. Typhus, cholera and rampaging Cossacks periodically cut down the defenseless population. Czarist laws keep Blaszka's youth from a modern formal education. But so do Orthodox parents who pray that their sons will devote themselves to Talmudic study and their daughters will aim no higher than the kitchen stove and the marriage...
...current salary--adds a nice cushion for early retirement. Pension plans typically pay 1% of salary for every year of service (e.g., if you worked for a company for 20 years, your pension would be 20% of your annual salary), although government and union jobs tend to have much loftier pensions. "But remember that you will earn less pension with an early retirement," Westbrook points out. Plans can pay as much as 35% less if you retire at 50 or 55, vs. 65, Westbrook says. Again, this can vary according to the job you are leaving...
...customers keep coming back for more. So far this year, Papa John's sales in stores open more than a year--a crucial test of health in the business--have grown a strong 9.2%, one of the best showings in the restaurant industry. Now Schnatter has his sights on loftier goals. "The stage is set for us to become the No. 1 pizza brand in the world," he told throngs of enthusiastic Papa John's managers in Dallas and Denver two weeks...
Although the 3-0 weekend helps to wipe the bad taste of the Michigan trip, Harvard eyes much loftier goals...