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Despite being outshot 36-26, the Catamounts manned an aggressive attack on special teams—thanks to Harvard’s inability to stay out of the penalty box—that contributed to four big special teams goals. Three, including the difference-maker by right winger Chris Myers that gave Vermont a 5-3 lead at 19:10 in the second period, were on power plays...
...proves its value to more companies, outsourcing will change the way they hire. San Francisco--based DFS Group, a division of luxury-goods maker LVMH that runs duty-free shops in airports around the world, reduced operating expenses about 40% after hiring the outsourcing firm Cognizant, based in Teaneck, N.J., to take over most of its 265-person internal IT operations in 2002. Today those jobs are being done in India. DFS reinvested the savings primarily in better software. "They can add more stores efficiently. They know more about the products in the store," says Ron Glickman, DFS's former...
...chemical at the center of the recent indictments is tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), a substance that is manufactured, the government charges, by the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), a maker of nutritional supplements, based in Burlingame, Calif., whose president, Victor Conte, was among the indicted men. BALCO, which boasts a client list that includes the San Francisco Giants' Bonds and the New York Yankees' Jason Giambi, claims it traffics only in legal supplements. The Department of Justice questions that, and in June an unnamed track coach gave the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) a syringe said to hold traces...
...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
...boosted the valuations of several Internet service providers with its €3.9 billion offer for the 29% share of France's Wanadoo - Europe's second biggest ISP - it doesn't already own. And on Thursday Britain had its biggest tech IPO since 2000; shares in wireless microchip maker Cambridge Silicon Radio rose 23% in its first day of trading. Investment bankers predict a new wave of consolidation; Goldman Sachs estimates telecom firms will have...