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While neither the Saints nor the Knights are spectacular teams, they both are capable of beating Harvard if it doesn’t put in the same kind of effort it did against BU. In the wake of the weekend split with Princeton and Yale, Mazzoleni said his team needs a “lunch-pail type effort” and failing to have that made the Crimson not only “an average team” but also “very beatable...
...Pinault, who now owns Gucci, mounted a huge lobbying effort, including face-to-face meetings with President Jacques Chirac. Paris has now made a counter-offer that gives both men immunity; the Los Angeles prosecutor's office will decide this week whether to take the money - or start a spectacular trial of France Inc. on hostile turf. - By Peter Gumbel We Take Foreign Currency U.S. federal prosecutors charged 47 traders with fraud following an 18-month probe into the $1.2 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market. Authorities uncovered schemes allegedly bilking small investors and Wall Street banks out of millions...
...scandals are only more spectacular higher up the ladder of public life. In India's central government, Judeo is the latest in a long line of ministers of every political hue to stand accused. The allegations against him pale in comparison with the disclosures of 2001, when journalists from Tehelka.com, an Internet news service, posed as arms dealers and recorded themselves paying bribes to the then BJP president, Bangaru Laxman, and Jaya Jaitley, friend of Defense Minister George Fernandes. Fernandes resigned but returned to office months later...
Peter Weir, who directed Harrison Ford in Witness and The Mosquito Coast, and Jim Carrey in The Truman Show, admits to being fascinated and a bit frustrated by his leading man: "One evening when we'd just had a spectacular week of dailies, I looked over at him and said, 'How do you do it?' And he shot back, 'I don't know. How do you?' That's about as deep as we got. I think I knew Jack Aubrey better than I knew Russell Crowe...
Westfall’s performance on Saturday was perhaps the most spectacular. She took the corner that Sedgwick finished, recording her second assist of the game and the 32nd of her career, tying her for second in school history. Not that she should have even been in uniform...