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...make sure the business you choose is something you have a passion for. This has to be a natural decision. The only other thing I would say, is you have to have a lot of luck. You should never dismiss luck, but when you get a stroke of luck, you consolidate...
...League.The Crimson shot 890 (297-288-305) at the Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J., to take home the trophy, topping defending champions Columbia and perennial powers Princeton and Yale.Harvard dominated the first day of play, scoring the low team mark in both rounds and building a 10-stroke lead going into Sunday’s final round. And the Crimson held on yesterday to capture the first title in team history.Princeton junior Susannah Aboff won the individual crown, but three Harvard players followed her on the leaderboard. Junior Emily Balmert, sophomore Claire Sheldon, and senior captain Jessica Hazlett...
...Absolut auction), claimed that the price for V&S would not provide an "appropriate return" for shareholders. Yet le patron remained unperturbed. Three years ago, the company leveraged itself heavily to acquire Britain's Allied Domecq, a $13 billion deal that doubled Pernod Ricard's size at a stroke and added such brands as Beefeater gin, Ballantine's whisky and Mumm sparkling wines to the company's drinks cabinet. But the debt was speedily reduced to manageable levels, allowing Pernod Ricard to hit the M&A trail again. The changed economic outlook in the U.S.--the world's largest...
...were able to hold that margin pretty consistently. They weren’t ever able to walk away from us, and we were able to walk back a bit at the end. I thought that was really encouraging for us.”The Crimson varsity increased the stroke rating in the final sprint and managed to regain contact with the Cornell eight, but the Big Red’s steady, methodical pace gave the defending champions a comfortable 4.4-second victory over Harvard. Cornell crossed in 5:46.9, with Harvard trailing by just over a boat length with...
...enough, and have called on the Pope to personally meet with victims of priest abuse. Though it is not part of the official program of events, the Vatican has not ruled out such an encounter, and may be holding on to the option as a possible surprise stroke of spontaneity where the Holy Father's human contact might help assuage some of the lingering pain. It will be important to follow closely both the words and any potential gestures to see if the reserved pontiff manages to address the suffering of victims, and Catholics in general, with both sincerity...