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That part of the puck calendar starts this weekend, with the Crimson’s absolutely critical home series with an upstart Colgate (3-1 in its last four games) and rival Cornell, which is now two points ahead of Harvard atop the ECAC standings and—as always—might have a fan or two more than the Crimson this weekend at Bright Hockey Center...
...company (which owns TIME) can use all the help it can get. Ever since Case, then head of AOL, and Gerald Levin, then chief of Time Warner, agreed two years ago to complete the $106 billion deal in which the online upstart bought the old-media giant, their union has produced a Shakespearean torrent of pain and recrimination. As the Internet bubble burst and advertising slid into recession, the company's executives were slow to adjust their lavish profit-growth promises to Wall Street, which struck back hard. Having tumbled from a high of $56.60, the price of AOL Time...
When WorldCom first owned up to its massive accounting fraud last summer, most observers of the once soaring telecom upstart figured its calls were numbered. Rivals like AT&T and Sprint were happy to close the book on a company they blame as the principal culprit in the telecom bubble--one that had posted curiously high profits that they could never quite seem to match. But six months after its dirty little secret of success was exposed and the company was left for dead, WorldCom is confounding both its critics and its competition--not only refusing to die but showing...
...island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, which sits on perhaps 4 billion bbl. of crude, is also attracting foreign oilmen. These upstart oil-exporting nations join such established giants as Nigeria, which plans to increase its daily output from 1.9 million bbl. to more than 3 million bbl.; Angola, which wants to double its almost 1 million bbl. daily output; and Gabon, which is encouraging more deepwater exploration to prop up declining production. All this action makes the waters off West Africa one of the hottest places for oil exploration in the world. Says Al Stanton, an oil analyst...
...maniacal giggles. Most of the company's other films have not been seen at all; they have slept in the Shaw vaults, taken for dead. The studio's reputation decayed too; it was thought to be the stuffy monolith whose primacy was usurped in the '70s by the upstart Golden Harvest. That was the company smart enough to sign Bruce Lee when Run Run Shaw offered the actor a lowball figure, and to find budding star quality in a runt named Jackie Chan...