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...Point, N.Y. The action ended with the Crimson finishing in eighth place, 22 points behind the College of Charleston. Boston College won the event by a ten-point margin, while Georgetown and Roger Williams University tied for second. The A-division veteran senior duo of Clay Johnson and Kristen Lynch captured sixth for Harvard, while the best showing of the day came from juniors Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec, who turned in a second-place finish in B-division. Freshman Drew Robb single-handedly sailed his C-division boat to a 15th-place finish in C-division. Watson complemented...
...Boston College, as well as the MIT Invite and the Captains Cup, in both of which the Crimson finished third. Harvard’s success over the weekend—especially at the Captain Hurst Bowl—was thanks in large part to the work by crews Lynch and Dolbec. “It was a shifty venue for a crew—it wasn’t too easy,” Johnson said. “We were trying to be really conservative at such a shifty venue. We weren’t taking too many risks...
...This is the latest proof of how the lynch mob mentality that the Enron Task Force has incited and fueled, prevails over the rule of law," says Skilling's defense attorney Daniel M. Petrocelli. "The proposed legislation is openly unconstitutional. And the motion to the court asks the court in the starkest terms to participate in a knowing violation of the Constitution. I trust the court will reject the invitation...
...deal that Viacom was seen as having missed. Though Redstone was equally impatient with Viacom's lagging stock price, which is down 10% this year - compared to sister company CBS, which is up more than 10% - his muscle-flexing didn't immediately cheer investors. Just after the announcement, Merrill Lynch's Jessica Reif Cohen, an influential entertainment industry research analyst , issued a critical report downgrading her rating on Viacom to "neutral" from "buy" because she said "significant uncertainty" remains about the implications of the Freston firing for Viacom. "We think this move is likely to be regarded as an attempt...
...might think the sheer volume of e-mail would mean you could get away with a crack about the boss's Viagra use. But sophisticated software helps employers, including Merrill Lynch and Boeing, nab folks who traffic in trade secrets or sexist jokes. One called Palisade can recognize data in varying forms, like the content of NFL playbooks, and block them from your Out box. SurfControl, MessageGate and Workshare check work files and e-mail against a list of keywords, such as the CEO's name, a company's products or four-letter words. Wall Street and law firms sometimes...