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Although an upstart MIT graduate who pledged to provide a student voice in local politics gave them a run for their money, all nine incumbents stood poised for reelection to the Cambridge City Council late last night, according to unofficial results...
Harvard is everyone’s pick to win the ECAC and possibly make a run in the NCAA tournament. Brown is still the upstart...
...year after making the best and last word on electroclash—Tangent 2002: Disco Nouveau—upstart Ann Arbor label Ghostly International has released the year’s finest label compilation, its first full-length showcase...
...notion that India's upstart pharmaceutical firms could be a threat to Goliaths such as Pfizer or Merck might sound as hard to swallow as cod-liver oil. India is the world's fourth largest drug producer by volume, but its fragmented industry of 20,000 companies is still stunted in terms of revenues. Last year, the total value of India's drug sales including exports came to $6.5 billion, less than the $8 billion Pfizer raked in from a single blockbuster product, its anticholesterol drug Lipitor...
...marshal the party's institutional forces. Dean's outsider appeal has made all the other first-tier contenders blend into button-down sameness. Campaign manager Joe Trippi, 47, a veteran of six presidential races whose bare-knuckled style matches his candidate's, argues that the early focus on one upstart--which usually doesn't happen until January--has created "the strongest insurgency in the history of politics." Trippi also argues that the converse is true: "Whoever becomes the Washington establishment candidate will by default be the weakest in the history of the party...