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...Harvard's second wave of blue-chip recruits mature as quickly as its first did, the Crimson should have little trouble overcoming adversity to vie for the Ivy title, which, Totman says, has always been the team...
...color most onlookers skeptical. For one thing, the newcomers must vie for hard-core political junkies and insiders, who represent relatively few eyeballs. And this narrow slice of the market is being sought by such heavyweights as ABC, the Washington Post and CNN, each of which has a big Web presence, to say nothing of countless nonprofit sites that are chockablock with the skinny on your Representative's latest vote. "I liken the new sites to the specialty stores you see at Christmas," says Preston Dodd of Web watcher Jupiter Communications. "You wonder what they'll do after the elections...
Doerr is a man whose ear thousands of start-up entrepreneurs vie for, yet he spends a few hours each week seeking to improve public education. "The one thing we know about this new economy," he says, "is that if you can't do algebra, if you can't do symbolic reasoning, you are going to get left behind forever...
...Imagine - John Lennon 2. Yesterday - Beatles 3. It's a Good Life - Tony Bennett 4. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin 5. La Vie en rose - Edith Piaf 6. Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson 7. A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker 8. Respect - Aretha Franklin 9. Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti 10. New York, New York - Liza Minnelli
...Sayreville, N.J., try hard to make their contests look just as "real." They organize weekly bouts featuring costumed characters, intricate plot lines and the inevitable black eyes and scratches. In the EWF, as in the big leagues, fighters are assigned roles: low-down "jobbers" routinely get beaten up; superstars vie for championship titles. The boys know who will get slammed with a metal chair or smashed on a table. During the interview portions, characters accuse one another of cheating. The ref is jeered and mauled...