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Vigna, a senior and number one singles player on the Harvard women's tennis team, is a refreshing figure on the tennis scene in the age of million-dollar tournaments, teenage burnouts and court misconduct...
Then the partners discovered they were eligible for loans from the Small Business Administration to minority-owned companies. By the early 1980s Welbilt had become the beneficiary of an SBA program allowing minority firms to obtain federal contracts without competitive bidding. The once two-bit machine shop began winning million-dollar military contracts for Army smoke- grenade launchers and Navy pontoon bridges. Within a few years 95% of its business came from these "set-aside" contracts...
Slave labor. On every ranch, in every spacious home, in every garden, by every poolside, they are there. Mexican workers to pick up after the children, the horses, the fallen oranges. Mexican workers to keep the dirt away from the million-dollar lifestyle that these Californians have bought into...
...across the country have been met with arrests--and occasionally with negotiation and compromise--Harvard has ignored blockades, sit-ins and shantytowns and has responded after the fact with protracted disciplinary actions of questionable fairness and legitimacy. The decision to arrest divestment activists, who were blockading a dinner for million-dollar contributers at the Fogg Art Museum, was welcome as an unambiguous and justified response to protesters who were trespassing and obstructing entrance to the Fogg--albeit for good reasons...
...knew I'd win a million, for some psychic reason," said Chronic Loser Terry Garrett, 39, a former heroin addict with a long arrest sheet. Sure enough, Garrett's number came up in the million-dollar spin of the California lottery last month, guaranteeing him $40,000 a year for the next 20 years. (The state withheld $200,000 for taxes.) Garrett, however, did not predict the sorry sequel to his story...