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...sixth with the Crimson. One of Harvard’s proudest athletic moments came in 1998, when the Crimson became the first and only No. 16 seed to beat a top-seeded team in the Big Dance. Harvard and Delaney-Smith didn’t have the same luck in the 2007 tournament, but the No. 15 seed Crimson hung with the defending national champion Terrapins in the first half. It couldn’t keep pace with Maryland’s five returning starters down the stretch, however, in an 89-65 loss. A disappointment, sure...
...string of bad luck began as the 1981 school year wound to a close, when a local teenager set fire to Harvard Stadium’s press...
...which was founded by a Dane and a Swede and was based on computer code written by Estonians. Established multinationals, meanwhile, such as Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ikea, with their global customer networks, strengthened the region's links to the outside world. And never underestimate the dumb luck of geography: 90% of the world's trade is still transported by sea, and the Baltic is the major marine waterway of Eastern Europe. At a recent meeting of Baltic states, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt joked that the region possessed in its various countries all the components...
...elusive mix of endurance, persuasion, negotiation, intimidation--and timing. The field is sown with favors large and small over many years and watered with occasional menace. (Ask Dingell how he feels about being called "the meanest s.o.b. in Congress," and he quietly answers, "It's very useful.") With luck, the seeds bear fruit when the votes are finally counted. The process is so slow and cumulative that few people ever become masters. "I've been doing it for years, and I learned from the best," Dingell said, "Rayburn, John McCormack [Rayburn's successor as Speaker...
...Dingell is superstitious about the luck-changing power of grandiose statements, according to a longtime associate. So instead of a grand finale, he quietly but insistently drummed his cane on the floor of his Capitol hideaway office as punctuation for the long list of his legislative achievements...