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Saturday's contest against Stanford offers Harvard another opportunity to notch the program's first victory over the Cardinal. The Crimson nearly stole a tie last year in Palo Alto, Calif., conceding a goal in the 87th minute to fall 1-0, despite getting outshot 26-6. Stanford is 4-0-0 all time against the Crimson...
...that point the home team was at the bottom of the lobbying league. California's Silicon Valley remains home to the high-tech industry's loudest political megaphone, TechNet. Based in Palo Alto, it gives campaign donations in roughly equal proportions to Republicans and Democrats and serves as a clearinghouse for information and policy proscriptions about the new economy. But Chuck Manatt's pleading and Mark Bisnow's bus tour persuaded the upstart firms in Virginia and Maryland to band together to give TechNet a run for its PAC money. Led by AOL, Washington-area tech companies formed CapNet last...
...science would keep most college kids pretty busy. But when Yale junior Joshua Newman, 20, scampered across campus this spring, he wasn't thinking too much about finals. He was more concerned with raising $10 million by the fall--and then giving it away. A native of (where else?) Palo Alto, Calif., Newman just happens to be a budding venture capitalist, one of the early-stage investors who fund high-tech ventures before they go public, in exchange for a potentially lucrative stake. His fledgling fund, Paradigm Blue, plans to give about $500,000 to promising dorm-room start...
...weather in the Northeast, too, seemed uninviting, and she declined four years in Providence for sunny Palo Alto. "To be honest, I went back [to Brown] over spring break, and it was snowing," she says. "And I was like, 'I don't know if I can deal with snow in April...
...Crimson went on to win only one of its next eight games in a span that included a trip to sunny Palo Alto to participate in a tournament that included teams from UC-Berkeley and Stanford...