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Invigorated by Saturday’s blowout win but checked by fresh nerves, Harvard coach Tim Murphy cleared his throat and gazed at the glowing horizon...
...plunging into its clients' business? Chief executive Mike Eskew saw an opportunity: "Customers wanted one throat to choke when the pressure was on to deliver. We offered them UPS's throat," he says. UPS already dominates small-package ground delivery in the U.S., handling 13.7 million packages daily and moving items worth 6% of the U.S. GDP every 24 hours. By leveraging its operational efficiency, UPS is attacking what Eskew estimates might become a $3 trillion market--not only taking on smaller, European-based logistics firms like Exel and TNT but also fending off competitive pressure from Belgium-based...
...When prerecorded vocals for the wrong song piped up during her set, the shamefaced singer was exposed as a lip syncher. Ashlee, sister of pop confection Jessica, shuffled as if at a hoedown and left the stage. She later blamed her failure to sing live on a sore throat caused by acid reflux. Within days Ashlee was obviously warbling for real at the Radio Music Awards and telling the Today show the SNL episode was "mortifying." But the 20-year-old kept perspective. "I'm not anorexic, my boob didn't pop out," she said. "I had a bad performance...
...editorials have been critical of Bush's fiscal policies. Sensing an opening, the Kerry team has sent top economic adviser Roger Altman; former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards have telephoned; and Kerry dropped in on the editors one day in September, despite a sore throat that had forced him to cancel a campaign appearance. "We're deficit hawks from way back," says Curtin. "So both sides have bent over backwards to give us access." The paper's choice, like the election, is still a toss-up. --By Michael Duffy
...cadaverous mob.” The lyrics rarely drive the songs here, and are often difficult to decipher; Banks derives his authority as a singer less from the power of his words than from the uniquely disengaged brand of affliction that comes out of his throat...