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...only did the Harvard women’s squash team come out of its season opening weekend with two dominating wins, but it didn’t even have to miss The Game...
Drugstore.com is the only online health-products retailer to survive the dotcom bust. It has, alas, never posted a profit--and in September announced it would miss third-quarter sales and profit forecasts. Enter Lepore, 50, as new chairwoman and CEO. Lepore knows plenty about the Web's peril and potential: she was chief information officer and then vice chairwoman of online broker Charles Schwab, which flew high in the 1990s but suffered when the stock market sank. She is predictably optimistic about her new company, which has seen sales grow from $110 million in 2000 to an estimated...
...cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...
...have gone this route. But one huge mystery remains: how could such a crude forgery have continued for so long, and on such a massive scale? For years, Parmalat dealt with the world's largest banks, its most sophisticated investors and its most reputable auditors. How did they miss the signals that the company was cheating? It's not an academic question: if Parmalat had gone bust in 1995, when it could no longer fill all its funding needs in Italy, it would have been a mid-sized Italian failure with debts of about €560 million. Instead, Parmalat took...
...maybe a little much for a certain type of listener, delving deep into some homosexual imagery that may be off-putting, not because it’s homosexual, but rather because it’s awfully graphic. The squeamish will be thankful it’s often easy to miss on a casual spin: “Have already touched it / It builds the bone / Although I’ll never need it / It fills in the hole I know” is more in-joke than description, and though “I drank from the wine that came...