Word: rolled
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...type of game Harvard has to win this season to gain any type of success. After coming off an emotional victory in its first Ivy League game against Dartmouth, the Crimson was unable to muster the same type of second-half intensity on Saturday when the Huskies didn't roll over like the Green did. Northeastern seemed to be easier bait, a non-conference team with one win and a losing history against Harvard (Harvard leads the series...
When Dana Giacchetto was flying high, they called him the rock-'n'-roll broker. His client list was more Melrose Avenue than Wall Street: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Matt Damon, Michael Ovitz. For the club-hopping Giacchetto, the line between client and buddy was as thin as a supermodel. He put DiCaprio up in his SoHo loft and vacationed with Courtney Cox's family. He had a knack for wrapping himself in buzz. In a New York Times profile of Ovitz last May, Giacchetto dropped names the way most brokers drop bad stocks. "Get me Michael!" he reportedly shouted...
...NINE INCH NAILS The Fragile (Nothing/Interscope). Into the orgy of urgently escapist pop that ruled music this year, Trent Reznor dropped this monument to loneliness and psychic angst. A powerful and creepily beautiful rock-'n'-roll album, The Fragile brought hope to alienated youth everywhere...
DIED. RICK DANKO, 56, bass player and singer with the Band; in Woodstock, N.Y. The Band, which began as Bob Dylan's backup ensemble, had several hits in the late '60s and early '70s, including Up on Cripple Creek, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
VENTURE OUT Sick of reading about venture capitalists making a mint by investing in dotcoms before they go public? Well, thanks to a newfangled mutual fund announced last week, you can plant seed capital. To be eligible for the fund, which VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson will roll out next year with meVC.com investors must earn $50,000, have $50,000 in the bank and plunk down at least $5,000. Just remember: most venture-capital bets are losers. Yours could...