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Unfortunately, Ronn Tomassoni could not continue the winning tradition once Billy Cleary '56 moved up from coach to Athletic Director. After the 1993-94 team lost to Lake Superior St in the NCAA semifinals, Harvard plummeted. The Crimson had not had a season above .500 until this year, the second season of the Mark Mazzoleni era and the final one for Cleary...
People might be annoyed at having to dial 10-digits to call their neighbor, but this system is far superior to the alternative of having the boundaries between area codes shift, in order to make room for additional seven-digit numbers...
...Colonial guilt might seem like a poor reason for the E.U. to prefer Caribbean bananas to the by-all-accounts superior Latin America bananas grown under Chiquita's and Dole's aegis. But Europe's policy was aimed at a "trade not aid" goal of keeping small family farms afloat. The U.S. stance, meanwhile, seems to have been designed almost solely by hundreds of thousands of soft-money contributions to the Democrats made by Chiquita owner Carl Lindner...
...when it comes to airline travel. Flyers should not expect premium service on a super-saver, $89 fare. What's more, travelers ought to punish poorly performing carriers by diverting their business to other airlines (such as Southwest, Midwest Express and JFK-based Jetblue), which consistently win awards for superior service. And at the most basic level, I can only say that if flying is such an awful experience, then don't fly. The U.S. has plenty of forms of alternate transportation to get you where you want...
...grand total of $500 a month rent, or $150 for my share. It was the perfect arrangement, allowing me to live well (with "vu") and follow my bliss as an actress and writer for a song. Practically everyone I knew was on a similar track. We felt smug and superior to our arty counterparts who were toughing it out in New York City...