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Every minute the Harvard men's soccer team (2-1-1, 1-1 Ivy) spends on the pitch it becomes better. The players develop confidence, chemistry and cohesion. With each game, the Crimson gives glimpses of the team that has ruled the Ivy League for the past two years...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Tackles Yale | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

Susan Yeh '99 said she was helping with HRO mailings in Loker when one of Alan's friends came up to her with their pitch. She said she was taken by the sympathetic story and was glad to do "anything to help...

Author: By Benjamin E. Berkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Than 100 Students Turn Out for Marrow Typing | 9/24/1997 | See Source »

When Harvard player Jamie Chu, who started in midfield, fell to the ground in agony in the 18th minute, the referee stopped play and summoned Harvard's trainer onto the pitch. An obviously concerned Wheaton followed the trainer to check on Chu, which drew protests from Daniels, as the referee had called for only one member of the Harvard staff to enter the field of play. Wheaton was given a yellow card caution for his actions, at Daniels' insistence...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Eases Past Lions and Buffaloes | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

This served to enrich Knight even further. His consulting agreement with Molten was highly unusual and gave him more than the typical incentive to make his pitch. Along with a $7,000 monthly fee, Knight was given options to buy at least 40,000 shares of Molten, firm documents show. In an April 1996 letter awarding Knight more stock options as he was leaving to run the Clinton-Gore re-election bid, company president William Haney showed just how valuable he thought Knight would be to the company: "Our objective is to keep you...with us right up until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AL GORE'S CASH MACHINE | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...King has 75% more beef than the Big Mac, an extra 12 grams of fat (yum!) and no soggy third bun in the center. Most important, it has cost just 99[cents]. Such a simple strategy--more food for less money--contrasts with McDonald's weird pitch for the Arch Deluxe (the "grownup" burger that has flopped so far) and its recent 55[cents] promotion, a complicated scheme in which customers paid 55[cents] for the Big Mac and certain other sandwiches when accompanied by the purchase of any size beverage and fries except...oh, never mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURGER KING: MAC ATTACK | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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