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Although Pinkerton and Security Systems International (SSI), the two main security subcontractors in the Boston area, will not disclose how much they charge the University, officials and the guards themselves say the figure is around half of what the University would pay to employ its own guards...
With the victory Harvard moved a step closer to its main objective of this and every season: to win the Ivy League Championship...
...Crimson moved to the top of the Ivy standings as the only undefeated and untied team in league play. Princeton remains unbeaten in three games with a single tie, and poses Harvard's main threat, but with last season's champion Dartmouth struggling, Harvard is the favorite for the crown...
...survived. Peiyuan, politically maimed from the Cultural Revolution, lives quietly on a small pension in Changsha, the gray, polluted capital of Hunan. Peiji, who made his way to Taiwan with the retreating KMT, lives very unquietly in neon-struck Taipei. He is president of CTS, one of Taiwan's main TV networks. As boys they were indistinguishable. Now their faces tell very different stories: Peiyuan's face, thin and ravaged, is the story of a China that Mao wrought, with its famines, executions, and harsh labor camps. Peiji's face, fleshy and grinning, is the story of another China...
...first. "Financial service is a paper transaction," says Gomez Advisors' Dan Burke. "There's no need to worry about shipping, returns or any of the stuff that makes regular e-commerce so challenging." Yet it will be December before Merrill Lynch, the company that brought "Wall Street to Main Street," offers its first $29.95 online trade. That will be more than three years after both a tiny upstart called ETrade and the discount brokerage Charles Schwab began allowing investors to trade stock on the Net. "We weren't in any rush because our clients weren't clamoring for it," says...