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Splitting two games in a holiday tournament might normally be considered a modest success, but Harvard was the highest-ranked team and the tournament favorite before an opening round loss left the team in third place and with a lot to think about on the flight back to Boston...
...Express mission, which will also launch a satellite around the planet. Next comes the $650 million NASA Mars Exploration project, which is actually two separate rover missions. And around the same time, Japan's $132 million Nozomi orbiter will arrive to test the Martian atmosphere. Those price tags are modest, compared to the $100 billion price tag estimated for the International Space Station. But even so, why does the world need three missions carrying five craft to Mars? Surely the scientific community would lower its costs if it pooled money, brainpower and technology in a group effort. Alas, the glory...
...estate and made his fortune. He has constructed about a dozen properties in Manhattan, among them several high-end buildings on the edge of Central Park, including the Fifth Avenue tower in which Eliot now lives with his wife and three daughters. Spitzer's mother Anne grew up in modest circumstances. She became an academic and teaches literature at Marymount Manhattan College in New York...
...public company, the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians would be the envy of corporate America. With a return on revenue of 41%, the tribe's Silver Star Resort & Casino would top the Fortune 500 profitability list, dwarfing even money spinners like Microsoft, whose 29% return last year seems modest by comparison. The Choctaw Tribe has proved even more productive by another crucial yardstick: influence peddling in Washington. How successful is it? In 1997 the tribe secured its very own special-interest provision hidden in a massive federal-spending bill. And it taps the government for tens of millions of dollars...
...Santee Sioux casino is a more modest affair. Set on a 200-sq.-mi. reservation along the Missouri River in northeast Nebraska, the gambling hall was set up in a converted cafe and has 60 slot machines. But soon after the casino opened in 1996, federal authorities sought to close it. The issue: the tribe, like the Seminoles, has no compact with the state, though it wasn't for lack of trying...