Word: major
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Despite dominating play early on and controlling the ball throughout, the No. 7 Crimson (14-2-1, 7-0 Ivy) could not find the back of the net, as Boston College (16-6-1) earned a 1-0 victory at Ohiri Field in a major upset in the second round of the NCAA tournament...
Harvard faces its first major test of the season when it hosts Brown on Friday. That dual meet will not determine the Ivy title, but it will inevitably affect the team's momentum and outlook on the elusive championship...
...actually hard to imagine how, for Microsoft, it could have come out any worse. The ruling carefully lays out the factual basis for the major antitrust violations that seem certain to follow. And it paints an exceedingly dark portrait of one of America's most admired companies. The Microsoft of Judge Jackson's narrative is a deep-pocketed bully that uses "its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm" companies that presume to compete with it. And it presents Gates as a law-flouting monopolist who makes a "threat" to one rival considering getting into the software market...
Then there's [The Artist]'s new CD, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. It's a terrific album, full of some of [The Artist]'s freshest, most focused music in years. It's being released by Arista--the first time [The Artist] has hooked up with a major label since 1996--but [The Artist] says he doesn't really have a contract with Arista, merely an "agreement." That agreement, [The Artist] says, is only two pages long. Two pages? Most pop acts need longer contracts just to cover the number of M&Ms that have to be in their dressing...
...major new study to be released this week isn't going to help matters, with a press release announcing definitively that the vital bond between mother and child often suffers when babies are placed in day care. It's just the sort of news that grandmothers like to clip from the paper and send to their favorite daughters-in-law, so be prepared...