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...Emde, to name a few, added its fair share to Harvard’s success. Richardson and Olson carried their momentum from cross country through the indoor and outdoor seasons.The outdoor Heps were highlighted by Olson’s anchoring of the 4x800-meter relay team, during which she overtook the Cornell runner in the home stretch to give the relay squad the gold medal with a time of 8:56.70.In the same meet, Chenoweth fell down late in the 5000-meter run, but picked himself up after dropping to last place and made his way back to the front...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saretsky Guides Crimson Progress | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...operating systems will be smaller, perhaps dramatically so. The sweet spot is steadily moving away from "computers" to mobile devices - phones, mainly - and Microsoft's mobile operating system has never captured anyone's imagination, let alone the market. (In its first quarter of existence last year, Apple's iPhone overtook Windows Mobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Microsoft Is Desperate for Yahoo! | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...back and gave up the first frame, 30-24.With junior captain Brady Weissbourd serving, the Crimson opened up the second game on a much better note. Harvard captured the first five points of the frame and seemed to have recovered its momentum. But the Fighting Bees fought back and quickly overtook the Crimson’s lead. St. Ambrose limited Harvard to a .061 hitting percentage, and though the Fighting Bees only posted an attacking percentage of .176 themselves, the difference was enough to overpower the Crimson. Harvard played from behind for the remainder of the match, surrendering, 30-25.In the third...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Blanked Twice To End Three-Game Win Streak | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...they are fundamentally different. In any event, although Northern Rock was pursuing a conspicuously high-risk business strategy, which enabled it to increase its share of the mortgage market very substantially, the new regulator proved to be asleep on the job, and the danger was completely overlooked until crisis overtook the bank last September. As a result, it had to be bailed out by the Bank of England, and an adequate deposit-protection arrangement had to be put in place to remove the threat to the rest of the U.K. banking system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failure After Failure | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Huckabee has raised just $2.3 million in total, and had $650,000 cash on hand as of Sept. 30, but he is surging in Iowa polls. In the latest Rasmussen poll he even overtook by a couple of percentage points Iowa front-runner Mitt Romney - who by comparison has raised $62.8 million so far this cycle and had $9.2 million cash on hand as of Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee Riding the Bounce | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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