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After enjoying a successful weekend against two league opponents, Harvard will face a difficult challenge Friday night against Penn, which is the only other unbeaten team in the Ivy League. At stake for the Crimson next weekend will be the continuation of its six-game win streak as well as its place atop the league standings...
...Department and former colleagues at the CIA, his negligence was not criminal; he simply should have known better. That's the line on Capitol Hill Thursday, as former CIA director Deutch faces the Senate Armed Services Committee and their probing line of questioning. Did he understand what was at stake when he decided to write classifed documents on his personal computer? CIA insiders, including George Tenet, the agency's current leader, agree that Deutch's security lapse was very serious, but are publicly insisting that Deutch's blunder does not approach the gravity of the Los Alamos breach allegedly orchestrated...
...University has a stake in free speech that goes beyond the interests of its members," he wrote. "Its integrity as an institution is bound up in the maintenance of this freedom and each denial of the right to speak diminishes the university itself in some measure...
...excess of $100 million). You don't screw up like that and survive if you're just a waxen flack. But Levin's legacy also includes a number of sharp, Net-speed pivots when his business has demanded them. He considered, for instance, selling Time Warner's stake in Turner Broadcasting just months before deciding it was actually in the best interest of both firms to arrange a merger...
...world's most admired beer is South African Breweries, which last October bought a controlling interest in Pilsner Urquell and Radegast, the Czech Republic's two top brewers, from investment bank Nomura International in a $321 million deal. With it, SAB got the right to acquire Nomura's remaining stake by June 30, 2001, for $308 million. That makes SAB Central Europe's biggest brewer and vaults it into third spot worldwide, after Anheuser-Busch of the U.S. and Heineken of the Netherlands...