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...Crimson is now trying to pick up more and more points to improve its seeding as the New England Championships approach. The championships will be held on November 4 in Worcester. There, Harvard will be trying to qualify for Northeasterns, which it hasn't reached in several seasons...
...hospital with the baby; she paid her first visit the very next day. "It's been hard for us to hear the true sadness in Nicole's voice," admits Jan, "when we have felt so much joy." More than once Nicole has had to battle the urge to pick up Rebecca and run, particularly when Jan went out shopping and left them alone together one day. "I could have just walked out with that baby," recalls Nicole. "My car was right outside." She has joined a birth mothers' support group, and talks about going back to school to become...
Such conflicts crop up in some of the most basic rituals of working life. "If an American wants an answer, he'll pick up the phone," says Kai Lindholst, a managing partner of Egon Zehnder, an international consulting firm. "A European will write a memo. The phone call will seem overly aggressive and pushy to the European manager, but the American needs to convey a greater sense of urgency because competition in the U.S. is so tough...
Columbia's hot hand these days is in TV production, where it is a leading producer of network series. The studio has eleven such programs in production, including Who's the Boss? and Designing Women. The division has a library of 23,000 TV episodes from which Sony can pick candidates for syndication and videocassette sales. Columbia also owns the 820-screen Loew's theater chain...
Also discussed at the hearing were charges of institutional harassment, including the city's failure to pick up the school's garbage for several weeks. In addition, neighbors obtained a cease-and-desist order to prevent the school from moving in equipment early last fall...