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Former University of Miami of Ohio coach Mark Mazzoleni was officially introduced as the new head coach of the Harvard men's hockey team at a press conference on Wednesday, becoming only the fourth head coach to lead the Crimson in fifty years...
About thirty administrators, alumni and former players attended Wednesday's press conference to welcome the new coach, including Hobey Baker winner B. Lane MacDonald '88-'89, who captained the 1989 NCAA championship team, and NHL player Ted E. Drury, class...
Last night, for example, I and a bunch of other journalists stayed late into the evening at the press center in the town of Pau carefully crafting our stories about the allegations of drug use against Armstrong--unfounded, it seems. I had to be in Bordeaux--a city three hours away--by morning, so I filed my story about 10, packed quickly and took a taxi to Bordeaux. By 2 a.m. the taxi driver and I were engaged in a fascinating discussion about drugs and the effect they had on cycling...
...only words of comfort Senator George Mitchell could offer on the disintegration of the Northern Ireland peace deal were those of the seen-it-all-before marriage counselor: This was never going to be easy. Mitchell vowed Thursday to press on with his attempts to revive the peace process, saying he hadn?t been so na?ve as to expect a smooth implementation of last year?s historic Good Friday Agreement. "I am not surprised, but I am disappointed," said Mitchell, after holding meetings in Belfast with Northern Ireland?s political parties. His job got a lot harder overnight, following...
...Where's it all coming from? According to Greg Maffei, the company's chief financial officer, who spoke at a press conference, the Office 2000 applications suite (which includes such warhorses as Word and Excel) has done particularly well: Sales of so-called productivity applications in general poured $2.9 billion into Microsoft's coffers, more than half its total income. Maffei also cited sales of Windows, improved sales in Asia (worth $570 million) and better performance from Microsoft's web ventures, such as MSN. Maffei also confirmed that Microsoft was considering creating a "tracking" stock for its Internet properties. MORE...