Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tournament was the first of the season for the relatively young team, which faces an uphill climb in trying to repeat last year's success. The 1998-99 team went 22-5 (7-0 Ivy), finished No. 19 in the nation and was led by James Blake, the nation's No. 1 player. Blake left Harvard after last season to turn...
Freshman Joey Yenne launched a beautiful shot in the top corner in the 64th minute to hand Harvard (4-1, 2-0 Ivy) its second consecutive Ivy League success...
What gives the scandals political resonance here is the way they refract the shock that our own effort to stage-manage Russia's successful transformation might have failed. The expectation of quick and miraculous success was naive when applied to a country with a scant history of capitalism, no experience with democracy, and no tradition of the rule of law. Whatever Washington did was a crapshoot. Russians have always cheated the system to survive or thrive, first the Czars, then the Party, now the elected government. Men who were once at home in the old regime hold power...
There was something oddly charming about the geeks who made up the first wave of Internet entrepreneurs. Social misfits pounding out code in their computer-science labs--these people deserved professional success. But after the Wright Brothers, you get Frank Lorenzo. And so this summer Silicon Valley was flooded by the Second Wave: fast-talking business-school grads whose interest in technology is limited to how it will make them money. This is Silicon Valley in the IPO age. Geeks are history; they're all capitalists now. Netscape founder Marc Andreesen stars in a Miller Lite...
Then I remembered the prayer my mother said after she helped me get ready for the first day of kindergarten. She said that she wanted me to listen to my teachers and enjoying learning from them, and wished me success from that day on. In light of her hopes, a skirt is more than just a skirt. It becomes a hope for a good year and a respect for learning. And that's something that is definitely not frivolous, superficial or materialistic...