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This sounds incredibly corny and moralizing, but both the kind words written about Carson’s school spirit and a recent women’s lacrosse game have shown it to be otherwise. At the sparsely attended mid-week game, the entire women’s hockey team took a break from practice to cheer their fellow athletes on to a win. I’ve started going to more athletic events in my senior spring and I’ve realized this attitude is contagious—and wonderful. Wouldn’t you love a hockey-team?...
...whole new level, that’s something you can’t teach. He’s putting the team on his back, and it’s great to watch and be a part of.”When Harvard needed to break out of its mid-season slump, Taylor and Richter provided spark. Now that the Harvard must play mistake-free hockey, the individual brilliance and the consistent hockey team must show up ready to skate.—Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...course, worst-case scenarios don't always come true. Anderson, the UBS economist, isn't overly pessimistic. But he sees China's export growth rate falling from about 25% a year to single-digits by mid-2008. "2008 will likely be the year manufacturers [are] finally forced to take a general hit on profitability," he says. A soft landing for factories might even be beneficial for the country in the long term, because it would weed out inefficient operators and boost China's productivity. A period of "creative destruction" is an inevitable part of any business cycle. China's economic...
...Kiss's first successes came in the mid-1980s with 12-year-old Krisztina Egerszegi. Kiss had long wanted to try incorporating elements of the speedy crawl stroke into the pokier backstroke, but he never had a swimmer with the right flexibility. He recognized that Egerszegi was the talent he'd been waiting for and began teaching her the moves. That, however, required making minute but crucial changes in her technique--a very big deal in a sport in which fractions of a second count. So Kiss came up with inventive ways to help her learn...
...broadest changes is a loyalty-rewards program starting in mid-April for anyone who buys a Starbucks card and registers it online. Participants will get free refills on drip coffee, a free cup of coffee when they buy a bag of whole bean coffee, two free hours of Wi-Fi a day and free upgrades - including syrups, soy milk, and extra whipped cream - on all lattes...