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DIED. WELLINGTON MARA, 89, legendary longtime owner of the New York Giants and Hall of Fame patriarch of the National Football League; in Rye, N.Y. By agreeing to a key deal in 1961 allowing all teams, many in considerably smaller markets, to split TV profits, Mara--who joined the Giants as a water boy at age 9 when his father bought the team for $500--ensured the competition, stability and survival of the now formidable NFL. Reserved but paternal, he paid former Giants players' medical bills, employed veterans as scouts and over 80 years attended most practices and almost every...
...lights on the last shopping day before the Hindu festival of Diwali, the Festival of Light. Sixteen died in Paharganj, 39 in Sarojini Nagar. A third explosion, on a bus in Okhla, south Delhi, reportedly killed three. "I saw one child, not more than six months old, its body split by the blast," said Paharganj handicrafts store-owner Neeraj Chawla. "And there was a family of shoppers. All dead, a mother and her children, lying on the ground with their arms apart. That's why I'm covered with blood. All the shop-owners rushed to pick them...
...several nearby building have shattered; and the sign-boards above the shops have been bent backwards, as if by a giant hair-dryer blowing at them. Chawla says, "I saw one child which couldn't have been more than six months old, which was dead; its body had been split by the blast. And then there was a family of shoppers, all dead-a mother, the children, all lying spread on the ground with their arms apart. I rushed to pick the bodies up; all of us shop owners rushed. We got their blood on us, and that...
...said. In 1969 Raymond started a smaller course at the College called “Business in American Life,” in which he closely corresponded with students as they started up their own small businesses. From then until his retirement in 1987, he split his work between the Yard, HBS, and, starting in 1980, the Extension School. During this time, he and his wife lived in Quincy House as resident tutors. He continued to work at the Extension School until last spring, although he was in a wheelchair due to a broken hip. Raymond was born in Newark...
...four full seasons—created an opening in the starting lineup that a pair of backups could fill. While Grumet-Morris’s 1.63 goals-against average (GAA) of last season will be hard to match, senior John Daigneau and junior Justin Tobe will certainly try.The two split time in Harvard’s 4-3 exhibition loss to McGill last Friday. Daigneau skated the first 30 minutes and stopped all nine shots he faced, while Tobe played the second 30 minutes, stopping nine shots and allowing four goals.“The coaches feel that both...