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...shows. In addition to successful practices all week, the playershave been doing their due diligence on tomorrow’s matchup. “Watching the film from last year, any player could tell some of the mistakes we made,” co-captain midfielder Nick Smith said. This kind of thorough preparation brought Harvard its impressive season-opening upset win against Duke on February 22nd, when the Crimson traveled to Durham and earned a commanding 9-6 victory over the Blue Devils. Harvard is hopeful that this win is indicative of growth, setting the tone for the games...
...HuffPo has also flourished by outsmarting everyone else. If you type "Nick Schuyler" into Google today, the Huffington Post's mashup account will appear above the original story in the St. Petersburg Times. That's Peretti's doing. In his hands, the site is particularly adept at what's known as search-engine optimization - making Google love you. How it's done is complicated and mostly secret, but one illuminating example came after the death of actor Heath Ledger. HuffPo fashioned its story so that anyone Googling a variation on the words "Keith Ledger" would see the HuffPo story...
...garnered 8.9 million unique users that month, according to Nielsen - more than double what it attracted a year ago. It gets a million-plus comments from readers a month. A business newswire recently valued the site at more than $90 million. Only one independently held online-content company (Nick Denton's Gawker properties) is worth more...
...hands about HuffPo's rise. In December the site's Chicago section was found to have been plagiarizing. "This was a problem with an intern," says Huffington. "There was no excuse, and we corrected it." When I point out that the initial story the site posted in March on Nick Schuyler, the football player who survived a storm at sea, carried Zaleski's byline even though 80% of the copy was taken verbatim from the St. Petersburg Times, Huffington says that the story drew from several sources - and that they don't mind. "We drive millions of page views...
...both professionals with college degrees, are raising five children in a 2,400-sq.-ft. home. Most people we know live with less. Perhaps if Stevens had shot for the American dream instead of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, she'd be in better shape today. Nick Kasoff, FERGUSON...