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Hochanadel cannot easily explain his rapid rise to the pinnacle of the Crimson offense...
Players, management and fans alike have acknowledged that baseball is a sport in rapid decline...
...Deng himself is rumored to be near death, and the struggle to succeed him is well under way. Despite Chen's prestige, China's official media waited 28 hours to announce his death. By Wednesday it was clear that Chen, an old advocate of central planning who had opposed rapid economic reform, would not be buried with the same pageantry as other members of the revolutionary generation who have previously "gone to meet Marx." By week's end the regime had not even announced a date for lowering flags in Tiananmen Square to half-mast. Says one puzzled Chinese analyst...
...largest for-profit health services company in the world just got bigger. The Federal Trade Commission today approved a merger between the nation's two largest hospital chains, first-ranked Columbia/HCA and second-ranked HealthTrust Inc., taking the rapid consolidation of American health services to a new level. The new $15 billion behemoth will have 320 hospitals and more than 100 outpatient surgery centers in 36 states, England and Switzerland. HealthTrust becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia/HCA, which was founded just 8 years ago by chief executive Richard Scott. The companies claim that by combining, they will be better...
Despite Harvard's poor showings in recent years, Vankoski was lured to the Ivy League both by the promise of playing time and the prospect of a rapid turnaround...