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Harvard led 12-1 through two innings, but the Falcons rallied for 11 runs in the bottom of the third, chasing Crimson starter Matt Brunning (0-0) from the game...
Playing as the home team, Harvard jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first...
...unless Kerry took out a mortgage on the very house in which they were meeting. The problem wasn't that he couldn't swing the $6.4 million loan. It was that he would be sending a message to the political establishment that John Kerry was scraping bottom and no one was willing to throw him a life preserver. "That was obviously a moment when you decide that you believe in what you are doing enough to really put some high stakes on it," Kerry says now. "I did, and I think she knew...
That's remarkable compared with minuscule profit growth in 2002 and a 17% decline in 2001. But investors shouldn't focus merely on the bottom line. They need to look beyond the numbers on the balance sheet to assess the quality of earnings and determine whether a company's profitability is sustainable...
...count when it comes to stock performance? Absolutely. Ask David Bianco, an accounting analyst at UBS who has scrutinized earnings quality. He found that since 1998, the 50 companies with the best quality earnings have returns that were about four times that of the S&P 500 index. The bottom 50? Zero returns over the same period...