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Harvard’s good fortune, however, didn’t last. In a back-and-forth battle that began Saturday night and lasted until approximately 1:35 a.m. PST, the Crimson fell 4-2 to the host No. 11 Washington Huskies during the wee hours of Sunday morning...
...Atlantic but has aged, as have its passengers. Carnival, on the other hand, made its reputation (and Arison a fortune estimated at $4.4 billion by Forbes magazine) by attracting younger passengers onto modern, glitzy ships, where the casinos start at 8 a.m., the discos are hopping until the wee hours, but the library opens for only an hour a day. Arison is hoping that Carnival's mass-market formula can be adapted from short cruises in warm climates to the sterner waters of the North Atlantic without destroying the romantic aura of transatlantic crossings...
...wee hours of the morning last Saturday, the Adams House gong disappeared from Adams dining hall and may have begun a journey across the Atlantic...
...more one thinks of the fantastic monorail, the more it comes to seem like one of those grand delusions, so appealing in the wee hours of the metaphoric night, that deflate as soon as morning comes. Better leave the monorail to haunt our dreams—and Amorello’s—than to let a bureaucratic nightmare kill it with the cruelties of reality. The breathtakingly-beautiful vision isn’t meant for this world...
Republican House Leaders scrambled in the wee hours of Nov. 22 in an effort to get last-minute G.O.P. holdouts to pass President Bush's Medicare-reform bill. They succeeded, but now even some allies of the bill are upset at the dealmaking that enabled it to happen. The American Hospital Association (A.H.A.), an important supporter of the bill, is furious about a last-minute agreement Speaker Dennis Hastert struck to get California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's yes vote. Hastert promised a vote next year on a bill Rohrabacher plans to introduce that would require hospitals treating illegal aliens...