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With Harvard clinging to a 2-0 lead in the top of the fifth inning of a must-have Game 3 on Sunday, Farkes swatted a towering three-run shot off of ace Tim Grant to put the Crimson ahead by the game’s final margin...
...first varsity eight got off to a very strong start into the brisk headwind against the Beavers and No. 17 Terriers. By the 500-meter mark, the Black and White held a lead of about one length, and the margin swelled to open water by the halfway point...
...nation’s polls. With a stiff headwind, the Black and White powered to an early lead—one which only grew as the race progressed. Radcliffe finished in 7:52.51, thrashing MIT (8:20.51) by 28 seconds and posting its largest margin of victory of the season...
This process, notes writer Hanif Kureishi, "is inevitable, because culture moves forward by taking new and original voices from the margin and moving them into the center. You saw it with Elvis. You saw it with Toni Morrison." If Bombay Dreams is a hit, you may see it with Indian composer A.R. Rahman. You can already see it in the critical and commercial success of novelists like Kureishi, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Ondaatje and Arundhati Roy. Their success has led the way for a slew of South Asians, including Michelle de Kretser (from Sri Lanka), Monica Ali (from Bangladesh) and Mohsin...
...years the supermarket industry viewed its 1% net profit margin as a badge of its efficiency. In reality, the opposite was true: the grocers earned so little because they weren't that good at managing the supply chain. Wal-Mart exploited that weakness with devastating effect on the grocers, and it has forced food suppliers to become more efficient too. For starters, the leviathan has changed the way grocery stores deal with their vendors, as everyone seeks to copy its Retail Link system, which provides real-time sales data to manufacturers. Wal-Mart also helped persuade the pack to subscribe...