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...excellent numbers for the Crimson this past year—leading the team with a .360 average, a .432 on base percentage and a .583 slugging percentage in 139 at-bats—Farkes was not selected in the draft, a surprise considering he was taken in the thirty-ninth round...
...decision overturned a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in MGM v. Grokster, which found that software developers Grokster and StreamCast Networks met a standard of having “substantial non-infringing uses,” citing the precedent of a Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios decision about Betamax technology in the early 1980s...
...maker based in Iowa. And 19 years after getting his M.A. in petroleum engineering from U.S.C., Fu wants to own Unocal, once the parent of those Union 76 gas stations. The company he heads, China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), topped a $16.5 billion bid from Chevron for the ninth largest U.S. oil company...
...Supermodel of the World." The contest, once known less grandiosely as "Face of the Eighties," is conducted annually by the Eileen Ford modeling agency, which will now award Monica a three-year $250,000 contract, a $10,000 diamond pendant and a $6,500 fox fur. The Toronto ninth-grader hopes eventually to break into the movies, but is satisfied for the moment with the profession she has been practicing for all of eight months. "The best part is the end result, seeing your picture," she says. Schnarre is the youngest winner ever. "She just happens to be tall enough...
...known for the purest swing and the poorest luck in the National League. When the fifth game of the 1972 playoffs--the very pennant--came down to one pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two out and the winning run on third, McRae was at the plate poised to be the hero. But Pittsburgh's Bob Moose threw a wild pitch that utterly erased the figure in the batter's box from memory. With the bases loaded in the seventh game of the World Series, McRae managed only to tie the Oakland A's with a deep...