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Just down the wall from the hockey team picture there is a shot of a marching band on the 50-yd. line, in the formation of the Harvard “H.” But the field is in Ann Arbor, not Cambridge, and the band is wearing Michigan blue and gold, not Harvard Crimson. The picture was taken November 7, 1942, the last time Harvard played the Wolverines in football...
...meet hung in the balance, freshman Michelle Bright and sophomore Emily Stapleton sliced through the water, distancing themselves from their opponents in the 200-yd. backstroke final but unable to shake one another...
Each was driven by the other’s efforts all weekend long, as the two were virtually inseparable between the lanes. In the 100-yd. backstroke the day before, the two had nearly finished in a tie as well. Bright just edged out her partner for a seventh place finish by 0.02 seconds...
Bright and Stapleton had reason to be confident. Only hours before, Bright had set the team record for the 200-yd. backstroke—2:00.17—with Stapleton right behind...
...ASDA, the British chain Wal-Mart bought in mid-1999, the company was selling men's jeans for about $24 after paying $14 per yd. for 50,000 yds. of material to make them. Then the buy was moved to Bentonville, and the conversation went something like, "We'd like 6 million yds., please. Now what's your price?" Try $4.77 per yd. As a result, ASDA slashed its retail prices in half and upped its annual jeans sales to 1 million, from 174,000. ASDA is acquiring some 2,000 products from Wal-Mart's global network...