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Alberto Tomba "La Bomba" had no scheduling conflicts when he was contacted and was actually able to ski right in to take up his teaching duties. Tomba, best known for his downhill Olympic slalom performance and for his wooing of the women, is considered by other TFs to be an "insightful and interesting person," regardless of his athleticism...
...Harvard sailing team tops even the squash team for low campus profile. Even with three returning All-Americans, it does not rate a spot on the official Harvard Athletics web site, a privilege even the Alpine and Nordic ski teams enjoy...
...good thing the stock market is hanging tough. Ticket prices for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City were announced yesterday, and seats at high-profile events such as ski jumping and the hockey finals will run anywhere from $110 to $425. Count on handing over close to $800 to watch the opening or closing ceremonies. Of course, those on a budget can always settle for a $35 ticket to a curling match...
...where I was when the Internet took off," says Greg Schoeny, a recent University of Denver M.B.A. who passed up opportunities with established technology firms like Lucent to work at an Internet start-up called STS Communications. Schoeny is a double-dare sort who also likes to ski in the Rockies' dangerous, unpatrolled backcountry...
...reverse that for a moment. The entrepreneur is Howard Head, who created a metal ski and later an oversize tennis racquet, revolutionizing both sports. He sold his namesake company in 1971 to AMF, a conglomerate that was busted up in the mid-1980s. Head was sold to a leveraged buyout firm, Freeman Spogli, in 1989, which unloaded the struggling company on Austria Tabakwerke, a government-owned firm that bought Head to try to keep its manufacturing jobs in Austria. "They did even worse," says Johan Eliasch, a Swedish merchant banker who took over the company in 1996. "They threw money...