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...those who revered the Cowboys as America's Team, it was the beginning of a decade of galling frustration. They were to have precious few playoff opportunities to put on their ten-gallon hats and lizard-skin boots, pose by their pickups and act nasty. Or ogle the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders as they sashayed their postseason routines across the hallowed petroleum-byproduct turf at Texas Stadium. Instead, there was Sunday upon Sunday filled with ignominy and gloom. No divisional championships. No Super Bowls...
...Coops: They've got the Cooperative system. We've got the Harvard Cooperative (Coop). Their system gives students valuable working experience while still in school. The Harvard Coop gives its students valuable bankruptcy and headache experience, with its overpriced school books and never-ending lines. Even with the precious one percent student discount, the Harvard Coop doesn't measure up. The cooperatives, point...
Thomas said he does not suspect foul play. But the block is "a precious commodity," according to Peter J. Riley of Harvard Real Estate, the manager of the Weld renovation. The 19th century granite used to construct Weld is very hard to match, Riley said...
...MANY PEOPLE, SO LITTLE DATA. ALTHOUGH MORE than 22 million Hispanics live in the U.S., experts say there's precious little information on their political attitudes. Until now. The Latino National Political Survey, funded by the Ford, Rockefeller, Spencer and Tinker foundations, is the first comprehensive study of the values of Americans of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban descent and is being praised by major Hispanic groups...
...Tonight show))," says Grant Tinker, former NBC chairman. "I think David should have been the one." Another top TV executive contends it was a "monumental blunder" for NBC to pick Leno over Letterman: "They put themselves in the position of angering a real marketable asset, of which they have precious few." A member of the Letterman camp argues that dumping Leno is the only way for NBC to salvage its 30-year dominance in late night. "Leno is destined for failure," he says. "NBC has a chance to right a wrong...