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...Pacers is now indistinguishable from that of Larry Bird. Which is exactly how the Pacers like it. The self-described "hick from French Lick" is an institution in Indiana, nearly to the degree he has been in Boston. Yet it is perhaps fitting that the Celtics should lose such an integral part of their tradition and identity at just this moment. They are Rick Pitino's Celtics now, the man Bird recruited in his final act in green. And although Pitino, a Boston native, wanted Bird to remain, it seems Larry Legend just could not resist the opportunity to have...
These same two teams meet today in Hanover for another twinbill. Harvard can clinch the division title outright with a split or better. Should the Crimson lose both games, however, it will play Yale in a one-game playoff to determine the division-winner: 25 wins marks Harvard's highest total since it tallied 29 victories in 1985. Simon pitched a complete game in the opener, yielding all of the Crimson's 18 runs and 17 hits. Joe O'Donnell '67, a former baseball and football letter-winner, threw out the first pitch after the field was given his name...
...Grand Forks Yellow Pages list 143 churches and only three psychiatrists, and it would take all 146 of them to explain how a place with so much faith could lose a turn-of-the-century downtown to nearly biblical disaster while the Wal-Mart on the edge of town stayed high and dry. The Grand Forks Herald, its offices swamped by relentless Red River tides and then finished off by raging fire, moved to new quarters without skipping an edition and began publishing page-long lists of personal messages phoned in by townsfolk--messages such as "To Mary O'Leary...
...envy of the world for its profitability and ruthless efficiency, could fall off that pedestal if it takes on too many social issues. "Business exists to make a profit," says John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina-based public-policy think tank. "When you lose sight of that, you lose the unique benefits that come from being highly focused in a competitive market...
Anyone who doubts that genes influence behavior should see the mice in Marc Caron's lab. These tireless rodents race around their cages for hours on end. They lose weight because they rarely stop to eat, and then they drop from exhaustion because they are unable to sleep...