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...Harvard men’s basketball team, however, ending the year at 7-7 in Ivy League play—and 12-15 overall—means a great deal more than that. A record that might signify an average, pedestrian, colorless season for other teams signals something very different for this year’s edition of the Crimson. Getting back to the solid ground of .500 represents a return to respectability, and the successful resuscitation of a program that just one year ago was in shambles...
...thing to learn to become a pedestrian in Cambridge...
...York native, I have come to appreciate a certain set of rules regarding pedestrian-traffic interaction. You cross the street—quickly—when no cars are coming. You step off the curb to get a better view of the street, and to be ready when that elusive traffic-gap comes...
...reminder of those terrible months is a patchwork of bright orange tiles where faded roofing splintered by the shelling has been replaced. Residents have repainted their homes, filled the bullet holes in their walls and paved over craters in the streets. Walk down the Stradun, Dubrovnik's polished-limestone pedestrian thoroughfare lined with open-air cafés and designer shops, and you wouldn't know that only a few years ago it was covered by the fog of war. "We have arisen from the ashes," says Maja Milovcic of the Dubrovnik Tourist Board...
...board of directors at Hewlett-Packard had admired many things about their star CEO. Asked to bring change to the doddering Silicon Valley giant, she pursued the task fearlessly, her efforts culminating in a controversial merger with Compaq. Asked to inject pizazz into HP's pedestrian marketing, she overhauled it right down to the corporate logo. Asked to create a strategic vision for a company that had none, she came up with dazzling insights into "transformational trends" and a hyperdigital future in which HP would serve consumers and corporations at every stage. But the board ultimately concluded that Fiorina...