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...that’s] more assurance that we’ll go out and be solid.” Harvard will hope to extend its winning streak to three matches on March 12 when it faces No. 75 Tulsa at the Murr Center. While there are many teams who stand between the Crimson and the Golden Hurricanes in the national rankings, Harvard maintained that it won’t be taking anything for granted in two weeks. “Every team is going to want to come out and beat us, so as long as we?...
...dollars bandied about, no one is able to say with certainty when this distribution cafeteria will turn into a viable business with real profits. In traditional broadcasting, networks make money by charging advertisers for commercial space--an effective and time-tested financial model. With the $1.99 downloads, nets stand to make about $1.39--compared with 44 per household typically earned from ads on an hour-long drama. But new-media ventures are still in their nascent stages. NBC estimates it will make $10 million from iTunes downloads in 2006--an amount equal to ad sales from one Thursday prime-time...
...trials turn on family, with insiders spilling secrets they once vowed to take to the grave. The parade of turncoats in the racketeering trial of John Gotti Jr. have told of cold murder and dirty money and a celebrity kidnapping. But when Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo took the stand, he aimed his bombshell directly at gangland's most famous and famously tight-knit family. The defendant's father, he said--the legendary Mafia boss John Gotti Sr.--had a secret second family...
...principle (it says Plan B simply isn?t in great demand), it has nevertheless faced intense ideological pressure. ?We?ve had women?s groups who felt that we should be selling it; we?ve had conservative Christian organizations that felt Wal-Mart was the last one taking a stand again the drug,? says Mona Williams, a spokeswoman for the company. Wal-Mart has been considering the change for months; at a meeting in January of store managers, several lobbied for adding Plan B to the usual stock, arguing that the majority of Wal-Mart customers are women and would appreciate...
...More and more, undergraduates find their Derrida reading accompanied by comic strips, their Shakespeare supplemented by “10 Things I Hate About You.”Within Harvard’s top faculty, a divide is growing among its literary and social critics. On one side, there stand those who see pop culture artifacts as valid objects of inquiry. On the other side, there stand profs who fear a collapse toward the bottom of the barrel.THE GREAT EQUALIZERSMenand, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, says that he put the George Lucas movie on his syllabus...