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While last year's game was so close that Harvard led with no time remaining. Saturday's contest was so lopsided that Penn never threatened Harvard's dominance. The Crimson offense converted third downs apparently at will, crossing the first down marker on its third attempt twice as often as the Penn attack...
...least elegant games of football you'll ever see, and the dog's grab for the orange foam gave the fans one of their few opportunities to cheer an aggressive offensive play. The cheers quickly turned to jeers as a uniformed security officer pursued our hero and retrieved the marker...
When Australia II finally crossed the invisible line between the marker buoy and the committee boat, she was 41 sec. ahead. The spectator fleet exploded with excitement. Rubber dinghies, day sailers, party boats and ocean racers swarmed around the Down Under wonder in a cacophony of blaring horns and Klaxons. Ashore, bands of Australians waltzing Matilda and waving Aussie flags passed legions of local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided...
...money and/or other players. If a player has a higher marginal revenue product for Team A than for Team B (because he is a hometown hero, or fills a gap at third base, etc.), one would expect Team A to bid more than Team B in the free agent marker. Similarly before the free agency system was pot into effect. Team A could have paid the money directly to Team B for the player. Since its marginal revenue product for the player is greater, it would be willing to pay Team B a sum equivalent to the marginal revenue product...
...alcoholic predetermined by his genes? Vaillant believes there is a connection, noting that one out of three victims has a close relative who is alcoholic. But he doubts that researchers will ever find the biochemical marker. "I think it would be as unlikely as finding one for basketball playing," he says. "The best analogy is most coronary heart disease, which is not due to twisted genes or to a specific disease. There is a genetic contribution, and the rest of it is due to maladaptive lifestyle: too much fat, too little exercise. One gets alcoholism not because one does something...