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...matter how well the dual meet season goes, when it gets to this race, it's very seldom that anyone wins by a huge margin," said Brown coach Scott Roop...
...reason. "This is illegal!" the school's dean fumed. De Guzman wanted to write a program to "steal and retrieve Internet accounts of the victim's computer," allowing people to use those stolen log-ins to access the Internet free. The response from a faculty member, scrawled in the margin of the page: "We do not produce burglars...
Last fall Bill Clinton tore up his schedule to help elect JOHN STREET mayor of Philadelphia. The President worked the phones, deployed emissaries to get out the vote and made a last-minute visit to Philadelphia for the Democratic candidate, who won by a narrow margin. But Street doesn't seem to be overflowing with gratitude. He has embarrassed the Administration by endorsing a city suit against 14 firearms manufacturers--including Smith & Wesson, which signed an agreement in March to install new safety features in exchange for assurances that the company would be left out of a suit the Federal...
...game like the second against Dartmouth, that is, feeling relaxed and confident," said captain Ghia Godfree, referring to Thursday's 2-0 win that clinched the Ivy title. "Our main motivation was to show Cornell that we could beat them [convincingly], since we beat them by such a slim margin last time...
...stock cheap? Well, over the past five years Microsoft's price-earnings ratio has ranged between 30 and 80 and averaged 51. Now the P/E is 41, by that measure its lowest point and best value in many months. That earnings multiple is well below those placed on lower-margin businesses run by, among others, Dell and Sun. And history (notably the 1984 breakup of AT&T) suggests that breakups work out well for shareholders...