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...WCHA) trampled the No. 9 Harvard women’s hockey team (4-4-2, 4-2-2 ECAC) in a double effort this weekend. The Crimson lost by 3-1 and 3-2 scores in its first non-conference play of the season at the Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minn. The Gophers maintained their winning streak against Harvard, as Minnesota last claimed a 4-3 victory over the Crimson in the 2005 NCAA championship game. MINNESOTA 3, HARVARD 2 Despite losing again, Harvard played consistently on Saturday night, challenging Minnesota’s strong offense, which had a total...

Author: By Alexandra E. Zimbler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Unexpected Woes Continue as Harvard Tumbles | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...journalists have a way of making heroes out of poor managers, as long as they lavishly publish our peerless prose. I've been guilty of it myself. I owe my early career to the largesse of Otis Chandler's Times-Mirror Co. and Alvah Chapman's Knight-Ridder. Believe me, those were swell times. And I watched some great journalism being done-but upstairs those companies were failing to defend their market positions and misunderstanding the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Wall Street Journal Deserves Murdoch | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

With that, yet another leading family would depart an American news business once dominated by such clans. Newspaper-owning families began selling out in a big way to corporate chains in the 1960s. The largest chains--Gannett, Knight-Ridder, Tribune, Times Mirror--mostly started out family run as well, but as they expanded, the family stake was diluted, and Wall Street came to call the shots. This wasn't all bad; lots of family-owned newspapers were horrible. Knight-Ridder in particular gained a reputation for improving the properties it bought. But with profits under severe pressure from the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murdoch vs. Family-Owned Newspapers | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

Sources: Age (Australia); Reuters; AP; Knight Ridder Washington Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Feb. 26, 2007 | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...vehicles. They didn't do any of the local governance that Petraeus had done. They were occupiers, not builders, and put Iraqis in control of civic order. Within months, Mosul descended into chaos. "You win this thing with boots on the ground," a Stryker Brigade officer told a Knight-Ridder reporter in January 2005, "not by throwing more vehicles at the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good General, Bad Mission | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

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