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...freshmen to have started every matchup this year for the Crimson, Murphy entered the fall preseason without having played a game for an entire year. Surgery kept her from softball for her whole senior season at the Westridge School in Pasadena, California, where she was a First-team All-Prep League selection for the previous three years in a row.But that year off did not prevent her from making an immediate impression on the Harvard squad. In fact, there was one aspect of her game that almost certainly improved because of the respite from catching—her hitting...
Blogs suck up news the way an Arizona lawn sucks up water. And it's not just blogs. The Internet has given power to everybody. My e-mail brings news that students at Andover, the prep school, are "launching a breakthrough website ... the first-ever student-run publication focused exclusively on the presidential race...
...basketball team. The Trojans recently received a commitment from teen-rap sensation Romeo (he dropped the Lil’ over a year ago), meaning that the son of hip-hop mogul Master P will be teamed up with the nation’s top incoming freshman—prep phenom O.J. Mayo—come the 2007-08 season...
...Back in the world of bricks and mortar, the likes of H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt, the two largest tax prep outfits, are still able to charge an average of $150 to $200 a pop for doing a return. Pricing at these companies regularly rises 5% to 7% a year, according to Kartik Mehta, an analyst at FTN Midwest Securities - evidence that neither is exactly scrambling to hold on to customers. And the business model works even when the $49.95 price tag for TurboTax Deluxe Deduction Maximizer is taken out of the equation; that is, when the cost...
...Ironically, the group most threatened by technology is the tax prep software industry itself. A new generation of Web-based products, such as TaxAct, are slowly needling their way into the market dominated by Intuit and H&R Block. One reaction of the established players has been to offer services more akin to those of a professional preparer. People who sign up for Intuit's TurboTax Professional Pro supply tax data over the Internet and then have a phone conversation with a preparer, who ultimately does the filing. H&R Block's TaxCut Tango and Signature online products also have...