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...Harvard women’s hockey team to win its fifth straight Beanpot title, all it must do is show up at 8 p.m. tonight and defeat Boston College—a team it destroyed by a school-record 17-2 margin exactly two weeks...
Despite the lopsided margin in the last meeting, Harvard coach Katey Stone says she is not taking anything for granted, as usual. She said that Harvard will continue to aim to do the little things right—in particular, good special teams and quick movement of the puck in the defensive zone...
...unconventional lenders, including pawnbrokers and loan sharks, to meet its capital requirements. Liu Qingrong, for example, borrowed money from friends and family to set up a Chinese medicine factory in 1992. Within two years, her traditional remedies were outselling those produced by her biggest state-owned competitor by a margin of 5 to 1. But her rival, which was backed by local officials, still received every advantage, including governmental assistance to raise capital via a stock-market listing. "It was bitter medicine," Qingrong recalls...
Against Vassar (6-0, 3-0), Harvard fell behind early and faced a deficit of 18-9 in the first game. The Crimson closed the gap temporarily, but the margin proved too big to overcome and Harvard fell...
...over their parents' grocery store after the war and built it into a retail powerhouse. To keep costs - and prices - down, the stores are deliberately Spartan and understaffed, and feature a restricted number of staples, about 700 in total. The formula has been a smashing success: in the low-margin world of grocery retailing, where many chains earn a net return of just 1%, Aldi nets as much as 7%. The Albrecht brothers are now among the richest people in Germany. When the euro was introduced, Aldi rounded its prices downward, while many others rounded up. If it comes down...