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BOSTON-—It’s easy to say that the No. 10 Harvard men’s hockey team is impressive this year, that it has felled a slew of formidable opponents, and that, all in all, this is a season of which the Crimson can be proud. Nevertheless, it remains impossible to say anything that will lessen the sting of last night’s double-overtime Beanpot defeat...
...Ever feel like a tour guide is phoning it in? That may not be a bad thing, judging from a slew of new cell-phone tour services popping up across the U.S. At Talking Street (talkingstreet.com), which focuses on the country's major East Coast cities, you download a map of a tour online then dial in at indicated locations to hear historical stories and the scoop on local haunts from celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour...
...these new entries--as well as a slew of real estate websites from Domania.com to Houseandhome.msn.com--have helped make home buying more efficient. Consumers who buy their houses via the Web spend slightly less than two weeks looking at homes, on average, visiting six properties in person, according to the California Association of Realtors. That compares with spending more than seven weeks and looking at 15 homes, on average, for those who don't use the Internet. As a result, the new online agents can show more homes--and charge lower commissions...
...billion. At the end of my tenure as Bertelsmann's CEO, its debt was $334 million, the lowest of all big media corporations that I know of. Companies like Time Warner, Disney and Vivendi Universal are paying this as annual interest. TIME implied that I left "a slew of dubious new assets." The truth is that all the acquisitions under my leadership delivered the originally budgeted returns and Bertelsmann faced no write-off. You also wrote that Bertelsmann owner Reinhard Mohn "was so upset by Middelhoff's tenure." Our disagreement was primarily over my desire to make Bertelsmann a publicly...
Thirty-two seconds later, you’d have watched the Raiders knock home a puck that bounced high off Crimson blueliner Dylan Reese and right into Colgate hands, one of a slew of unlucky Harvard caroms...