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...started when sophomore forward Tim Pettit fired a pass up the right side to a streaking Kolarik, who took the puck inside the blueline. Kolarik, playing with a broken thumb, then wristed a knuckling shot which eluded Cornell goalie Matt Underhill to the stick side and set off a mad celebration behind the Cornell goal...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miracle on Ice: M. Hockey Wins ECAC Crown | 3/17/2002 | See Source »

...success has been an exceptional knack for supply-chain management. Every shipment passes under the watchful eye of a full-time statistician, a "master planner" who constantly surveys retailers and wholesalers, anticipating their demands so the factory can be ready with the necessary personnel and raw materials. In 2001 mad-cow disease had most manufacturers scrambling to fill orders for leather furniture, but not Gold: when the epidemic first made headlines, he bought up $5 million worth of South American hides, enough to keep the club chairs rolling for the next eight months. Result: 97% of the company's orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold's New Rush | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...products and killing jobs in steel-consuming businesses (eight for every one saved by the tariffs, according to a study financed by those same steel consumers). It bruised America's relations with its allies - the EU, Russia, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, China, Taiwan and even Australia are all hopping mad and promising a fight - and left his Administration's pro-trade credibility in tatters. It also opened the door to countries like China throwing up pet barriers of their own. All in the name of about 800,000 voting steelworkers and retirees in West Virginia (and part of Pennsylvania), their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Can Get Right on Steel | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

...black-clad metal-god persona); and chip-off-the-old-block Jack (a likable oddball with a thing for bayonets), the Osbournes are like the Soprano family without the guns. TV thrives on facile distinctions between "functional" and "dysfunctional," but this family is delightfully functional in its own bleeping-mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Ozzy, Not Ozzie | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

Your cartoon strip poking fun at the shenanigans of Washington officials [CARTOON, Feb. 11] was funny, very funny! Mad magazine couldn't have skewered the energy-policy meetings between Dick Cheney and Enron CEO Kenneth Lay any better! And thanks for including the Puritan-throwback Attorney General John Ashcroft for his unbelievable decision to cover up the breasts of an innocent statue! JEAN P. FORRESTER Rochester Hills, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 2002 | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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