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...this week to within five spots of the top 25. With No. 24 Lehigh facing Colgate—ranked No. 10 by the Sports Network and No. 11 by ESPN—and No. 25 Hampton taking on No. 13 Grambling next weekend, a Bulldog blowout of Brown could propel Yale into the top 25. In that event, it would be the first time that three Ivy teams are ranked in the same week...
...idea for Boston ground-keepers to paint the World Series logo on the Fenway Park grass on Thursday. That was tempting the Red Sox's 85-year-old Curse of the Bambino. Or of Buckner. And now Boone--as in Aaron--who smacked an 11th-inning homer to propel the hated-rival Yankees to the World Series. The only memento that Sox fans had to treasure was an editorial in the New York Post lamenting that the Yankees may have "acquired a curse of their own" after losing the seventh game. The editorial, which...
...seeming split has huge significance. It was Hindu chauvinists?galvanized by a BJP campaign to undo brick by brick the 16th-century Mughal invasion of the subcontinent?who in 1992 ripped down a mosque supposedly built over a Hindu temple at Ayodhya; that helped propel the BJP to power on a wave of violent Hindu assertion. But upcoming polls may be forcing the BJP to distance itself from the VHP. With four state elections taking place on Dec. 1, and a general election due within the year, the BJP's more moderate coalition partners are pressing it to adopt...
...attaining such a high level of success in helping to propel No. 22 Harvard to its 4-0 record has been anything but easy...
...when he was still running Hard Rock Cafe, Earl launched Planet Hollywood with the help of celebrity partners, including Bruce Willis and Sly Stallone, who got paid in stock to go to openings and attract free publicity. Star power helped propel the firm to a dotcom-style IPO in 1996 with what even Earl describes as "insane multiples." On paper, Planet was worth some $3.4 billion at its apex--and Earl more than $1 billion. But its stock, which peaked at $32, was delisted just before Planet's first bankruptcy in 1999. The chain, based in Orlando, Fla., had barreled...