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Unlike many upstart teams which are driven by one superstar and a lot of average-to-bad role players, the Harvard women’s Nordic team has ample competition...
...high-crime hell of the 1980s and early '90s was a period of chaos in the illegal drug trade. Powder cocaine was generally measured and sold in multiple-dose amounts behind locked doors, but crack was relatively cheap and highly portable. Upstart young dealers saw an opening and shouldered their way into a business long dominated by established kingpins. Trading valuable drugs for ready cash in plain sight was a recipe for robbery and intimidation. Dealers armed themselves for protection, and soon every teenage squabble in crack territory carried a risk that bullets would...
...traditional powerhouse that’s hosting the EISA championships next weekend and has two alums competing for Team USA in Vancouver. The other is an upstart program from Boston without a home course. One placed fourth overall, and the other placed ninth...
...discussion is particularly prescient for the mountain crowd. Like golfers and tennis players at the country club, skiers and snowboarders share a home on the slopes but don't always see eye to eye. For years, regal skiers treated upstart snowboarders like pests; thanks to efforts by snowboarding pioneers like White, who has given the sport legitimacy and near mainstream acceptance, now there's at least a grudging respect between the two camps. "I wouldn't say there's a rivalry," says Rick Bower, a half-pipe coach for the U.S. team. He stops to reconsider that statement. "There...
...Citigroup, Eugene McQuade is running the bank's North American retail-banking operations. McQuade was formerly the head of Merrill's banking operations - a considerably smaller job than the one he has at Citi. Investment banks Jefferies and recent upstart Moelis & Co. have also picked up former top Merrill Lynch bankers. (See the top 10 financial collapses...