Word: centralization
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Then on Saturday, the Crimson hosted the Harvard Select Meet at the Gordon Track Center. Competing against Harvard at the individual-only meet were athletes from Northeastern, Boston College, and the Central Mass. Striders, a local club team. Despite missing some of its top athletes, the Harvard women's team put forth a solid effort, winning nine of the 15 events of the day, while the men's team managed to come up with three individual victories...
...meters, former Harvard track star Joe Ciollo '99, running for the Central Mass. Striders, won with a time of 1:54.9. Captain Dominic Patillo (1:57.9) was the top athlete from the present Crimson team...
...Chiquita Brands was the old United Fruit Co., a ruthless buccaneer that earned a justifiable reputation as a tyrant that bribed officials of foreign governments, used armed force to keep its workers in line and generally mistreated its thousands of dirt-poor laborers on impoverished Caribbean islands and Central American plantations. All of which helps explain why Chiquita was--and is--the world's dominant banana producer...
...gloomy mood 2 "-- opinion" 3 Scandal-ridden German pol. org. 4 JFK arrival 5 Wears out the rug 6 Greenspan of the Fed 7 Cacophony 8 Central figure in a 25-year-old murder case 9 Loesser's The Most Happy -- 11 Serious fluid buildup 12 Police, slangily 14 Bartlett's abbr. 16 "Be prepared" org. 19 Litter's littlest 20 Bauxite or galena 21 Dumb -- (old comic strip) 23 Sot's spree 24 Strip in the Middle East 26 Lesage's -- Blas 27 Benjamin's successor 28 Rush to sell, on Wall Street 29 New competitor for the Pentium...
...that is the first thing that Soman Chainani, my partner in crime, and I think as we step off that fated train into the area of New York City that should be renamed MTV Central. The titanic offices overlook larger than life posters of a frolicking Nikki Taylor; huge windows glisten in the sun, custom designed so that everyone--and I do mean everyone --can look into the haven of coolness that few--and I do mean very few--may enter. The extent of this exclusivity we soon find...