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...Crimson needed to sweep Saturday and Sunday doubleheaders against Ivy frontrunner Dartmouth (28-12, 17-3) to stay alive in the race for the Red Rolfe division crown. Harvard has won the Rolfe division the last four years...
Arnault hates to admit it, but he still desperately wants to make Gucci the jewel in the LVMH crown. The leather-goods maker is exactly the type of company Arnault knows how to maximize: a hot name with tightly held licensing and underexploited accessories markets. During the '80s Gucci became an overextended brand synonymous with suburban housewives. Starting in 1994, Gucci's De Sole and Ford began cutting back on licensing while focusing on building up the core fashion and leather-goods businesses. Ford persuaded celebrities like Tom Hanks and Madonna to don Gucci suits, and in just four years...
...Angeles Marathon, 1997 Nadezhda Ilyina is stripped of her crown when she admits to cutting through a gas station mid-race in search of a bathroom...
Even though it was no longer in contention for the Ivy League crown, the Crimson hoped to end the season on a four-game winning streak. Instead, Harvard finishes its Ivy League season a full two games behind undefeated Princeton...
...after decades of high and popular music--indeed music worthy of a Core class some 50 years after the fact--came bop, the dizzying complexity of which (and the fact that you can't dance to it) allowed rock, via R&B, to become the popular music. Magnanimity, the crown-virtue of swing, yielded to rock's rebelliousness--which is not a virtue at all, but the weak, ugly stepchild of courage. Nowadays, the glorious mixed-regime-in-music has devolved into plain democracy-in-music: those concerned with musical excellence via jazz can still subsist (democracy is colorful, after...