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...companies that most dramatically bucked the trend were Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. The latter's success got the most attention because its CEO, Jamie Dimon, was once in line to succeed Sandy Weill at Citigroup. According to Monica Langley's book Tearing Down the Walls, Dimon, a notoriously tough manager, got the boot after losing his temper with a fellow executive who had been rude to a colleague's wife at a 1998 corporate retreat. Prince, Weill's legal adviser, inherited the top job in his place...
...individual sports like archery, snowboarding and kayaking have seen steep increases in recent years. After all, why hang out in the outfield waiting for a ball to head your way when you can be the star player in your very own craft? "It's really part of this greater trend of people wanting to self-express themselves," says Mark J. Penn, author of Microtrends...
...while University Hall and the Undergraduate Council continue to spar over how much of a liability party grants really pose and, more fundamentally, how much autonomy the UC possesses, students and group leaders voiced their concern about a larger and perhaps more troubling trend...
...York Times sliced itself on the cutting edge of journalism last year with an exposé on a certain raunchy “underground” trend. Wait for it, guys: Sometimes? On Halloween? Girls like to get really wasted and dress like prostitutes at a themed bordello. It ranks up there on the “duh” scale with this summer’s piece on emoticons: I mean, it just feels like an American tradition to take it all off for Halloween. I’m pretty sure women in the Victorian era took a break...
...particularly well against defensive coordinator Kevin Doherty’s stout unit, finishing a combined 10-of-28 for 84 yards with two interceptions.A LATE RUSHThe Crimson’s continually evolving running game seems to have found its favorite part of the game—the second half.The trend continued on Saturday, when sophomore Cheng Ho and freshman Gino Gordon combined for 108 second-half yards, compared to just 33 in the first two quarters. Ho was responsible for 113 of the duo’s 141 yards, including a few key carries late in the fourth quarter that...