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...Having been atop the ECAC standings all season long, St. Lawrence comes into tonight’s matchup after losing its last game, 2-1, at home against upstart Princeton. Led by senior Carson Duggan, who paces the team with 34 points, the Saints will be looking to avenge last year’s ECAC championship game overtime loss to the Crimson...
...Gibbs found himself out of work, with a wife, a newborn son and a job offer in Chicago to work for an upstart U.S. Senate candidate named Barack Obama. Brad Woodhouse, a fellow Democratic operative and sometime fishing buddy, remembers telling Gibbs at the time that Obama could be President one day. There was no way of guessing then how integral a role Gibbs would play in that effort. But it turned out to be a vital one. "There isn't a single decision that the President has formed in the course of his campaign or the presidency that Robert...
...female editors go with all that power? What's the career arc? During Wintour's time at Vogue, Tina Brown was editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. She was, arguably, just as famous. Ten years later, having written a best seller, Brown is editor of an upstart website. With an office that looks onto an alleyway and a dumpster. Grace Mirabella, Wintour's predecessor at Vogue, started her own magazine, which folded 11 years later. It's hard to think of one name-brand magazine editor who has maintained her prominence or transferred her influence...
...flight from London Heathrow to Rome Fiumicino takes off. The plane making the trip will have the familiar red and green stripes on its tail, and the crew will sport their old uniform pins. But this will be the "new" Alitalia, under private ownership, merged with upstart competitor Air One, and now partly owned by its French-Dutch rival. No more Futurist paintings to be sure, but perhaps Alitalia once again has a future...
...Imported talent helped Grameen rival Acción, a big player in Latin American microfinance, establish a presence in the U.S. in the early 1990s. And yet even after years of making loans to small and upstart businesses, Acción still isn't profitable - an example of the challenge Grameen faces if it thinks it won't have to depend on donations for funding...