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...overtime battle for the Whitelaw Trophy. It was, in most respects, a prime example of how “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Just a year previous, the ECAC’s last year at 1980 Olympic Arena in Lake Placid, the Crimson and the Big Red waged a thrilling 96-minute marathon in the championship...
...this were the Clinton White House, the plunging polls would have spurred hastily assembled late-night meetings, presidential phone calls to allies at all hours, a round of firings. Not so in Bushland. At the offices of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Arlington, Va., there's the same placid quality that Bush showed during his fried-food fest. The headquarters have got all the pizazz of an insurance office. Top staff have private offices that circle a vast maze, there are standard-issue cubicles, the desks are neat, most of the men wear a tie (except on casual Fridays, when...
Since being named chief executive of the British design house seven years ago, she has convinced the style elite that the dormant, 148-year-old brand--with its placid beige plaid, which had been spotted, if it was noticed at all, lining the raincoats on markdown racks--not only is no longer a fashion anathema but is in fact a status symbol. Her feat has more than doubled the company's sales, turning it from a $470 million-a-year enterprise to a $1 billion behemoth...
Sure, the Harvard men’s hockey team has reached new lows in recent days. But with a healthy six games left in the season, stranger things have happened. Throw in the right team attitude, a wild league race and some Lake Placid-style playoffs...
...twist of fate is particularly heartrending because he made the team as an underdog. He wasn’t asked to play for the U.S. National Team Developmental Program as a teenager and was a late add to this summer’s tryout camp at Lake Placid...