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After cruising to a 2-0 record with wins over Penn and Brown, Harvard ran into its first roadblock against Princeton Saturday evening. The Tigers dominated the first two games, 15-6 and 15-13, but the Crimson rebounded to win the next two games, 16-14 and 15-9. The Tigers pulled out all the stops during the fifth and final game, winning...
Despite the disappointing finish, Harvard recorded just the third 7-0 Ivy League record since 1991, when all eight schools began to sponsor women's soccer programs. Additionally, the Crimson posted one of the best overall records in school history, ascending to the No. 7 spot in the national rankings...
Disasters such as TWA Flight 800 have exposed the folly of assuming the worst: terrorism. Still, EgyptAir has a track record: in 1985 Palestinian terrorists hijacked one of its planes to Malta, resulting in 60 deaths, and just three weeks ago, a hijacker forced another plane to fly to Germany. To enhance security, two armed guards usually fly aboard EgyptAir flights. There were no such guards on Flight 990. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hastened to dismiss sabotage, but the Egyptian government's war against Islamic militants cannot be discounted...
...muttering under its collective breath about censorship and artistic freedom, but it won't buck the system. That's because Wal-Mart's reach is enormous, representing 10% to 15% of all U.S. CD sales. "It's very difficult to have a No. 1" without Wal-Mart, says a record-company executive. That's why even the biggest, baddest acts--Nirvana, Snoop Dogg--often clean up their acts to play Wal-Mart. But even that kind of screen isn't enough for parents such as Clarke, who hold Wal-Mart accountable for everything that ends up on the shelves: "They...
...dedicated to the new Staples Center sports arena in downtown L.A., home to the Lakers, Clippers and Kings. Such special issues are common these days, as newspapers and magazines look for ways to attract advertisers, and it was a financial windfall for the Times, generating a record $2 million in ad revenue. But as one of the arena's 10 "founding partners," the paper had agreed to share the issue's ad revenue with the Staples Center without telling its reporters or readers about the fiscal arrangement. To give the subject of the paper's journalism a share in revenues...