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Your house seems to be acting like Cisco in early 2000. Home values surged 17% or more during the past year in cities hardly known for their flash, such as Tucson, Ariz., and Topeka, Kans. Many buyers are waving bids around without even inspecting the property. And money is flooding into McMansions and vacation homes, reminiscent of the cash that rushed into technology-stock funds that were all the rage a few years back. So the bubble police are on full alert, sensing another NASDAQ-like flameout...
What was even greater was that the 6’8 Winter, from Topeka, Kan., had become an important contributor to the Crimson offense. Winter had started a dozen games as a freshman when star forward Dan Clemente ’01 went down with injury, but last season he averaged only 16 minutes per game—almost always off the bench. Averaging only 4.3 points and 2.3 rebounds per game, Winter wasn’t even Harvard coach Frank Sullivan’s first option off the bench...
...Berlin." Edward Jablonski, Berlin's biographer and a confidant for many years, attributes the slur to jealousy "at a time when Warren's own Hollywood career was in decline." This is way off: Warren had five #1 songs in the 40s (including "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"); Berlin had only one (all right, it was "White Christmas," but still...) Besides, Berlin doesn't seem to have let Warren's feelings get in the way of another song quote. His 1947 "The Freedom Train" includes the lines: "It's a song about a train...
Winter filled in for Harvard two years ago when Clemente missed two months with a detatched retina. The then-freshman from Topeka, Kan., exceeded all expectations, containing opposing forwards and often providing an unexpected scoring boost, regularly scoring in double-figures...
...Middle East and the Persian Gulf region? And frankly, a little humility wouldn't hurt us at this hour. Perhaps we should spend a moment in this frenzy of revenge asking ourselves what we have done to contribute to this tragedy. And then stop doing it. MARGIE PHELPS Topeka, Kans...