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...this cutthroat course on fantasy baseball. The course is taught entirely in sections of no more than twelve students. Each student will compete directly against his classmates in a rotisserie league, beginning with a fantasy draft held on the first day of class. Each team will have a salary cap, and students must manage their team’s budget during the semester. As the baseball season begins, students will be required to make trades, sign and cut players and idiotically trash-talk on the league’s Internet message board. At the end of the course, the student...
Harvard’s penalty kill was solid as usual—in fact, it outshot the Saints’ power play for the evening. Botterill tied the game just 12 seconds after a St. Lawrence man advantage ended when she beat Barrie five-hole to cap a great individual effort...
...Government replaced all 91 fire trucks destroyed on Sept. 11, but it hasn't helped very much since. "We have a budget crisis in the city, and we need $275 million worth of equipment and training to deal with a bio-or chemical-terror event. But there's a cap of only $750,000 that we can get from the Federal Government for 'first responder' money. Obviously, some cities are more likely targets than others. But the government doesn't recognize that...
GOODWIN: My picks are much different. In health care, I am concerned that earnings estimates might be too high for the large-cap pharmaceutical stocks, so we have been focusing primarily on other health-care names like Amgen in biotech [0%] and Anthem [0%], which has consolidated Blue Cross/Blue Shield franchises. In consumer-oriented stocks, we like International Game Technologies [0%]. This is the dominant supplier of gambling equipment, poised to benefit from the fact that states are trying to make up for revenue shortfalls by liberalizing gambling. Finally, technology--I couldn't leave that out. IBM [0.8%] just reported...
...cap on new building initiatives and other long-term projects may be needed to keep FAS budgets out of the red, council members predicted yesterday...