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...12th-ranked men's lacrosse team (2-1 overall) lost its first game of the season in the closing seconds of overtime to the upstart Hartford Hawks...
...White House correspondent John Donvan was unavailable to cover President Clinton that day because he was busy helping his family move. Arledge used it as an excuse to lecture the troops about complacency, citing as examples the established N.F.L. teams that had been beaten in the playoffs by the upstart Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars...
...industry is still burdened with a large amount of debt and faces big capital outlays for new equipment. The U.S. has the oldest fleet in the developed world. Nor is the threat from discount carriers over. Although the ValuJet crash took with it the public's confidence in upstart airlines, the barrier to entry is still relatively low. Capital, pilots, planes and entire outsourced airline service industries are readily available...
Bronson is almost as unkind to Lloyd Acheson, the chief executive of Omega Logic, the fictional middle-size firm caught between giant Intel and the upstart VWPC. Like the real-life executive Jim Clark, who left Silicon Graphics to co-found Netscape, Acheson bails out of the hardware-manufacturing business and co-founds "Everyware Corp." with Benoit. Clark, of course, became an instant Internet multimillionaire when Netscape went public. By the end of Bronson's tale, Acheson and Benoit too are "skipping the conventional second and third round financings...and gunning straight for a public offering...
...banging on the door is upstart Cornell, only a half game behind after slipping by Princeton 58-57 last Friday, then edging Pennsylvania, 69-66 on Saturday. Cornell (5-1, 10-7) was led by the clutch play of junior Kim Ruck, who sank two free throws with seven seconds left to steal the win from Princeton, then added a career-best 30 points against Pennsylvania. The Ivy League rewarded Ruck for her efforts with the Player of the Week award. The Big Red battles Brown and Yale this weekend in Ithaca...