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...everyone liked the Pringles can when it first hit the market. "People resented it," says Phil Lempert, founder of supermarketguru.com. Uniform chips didn't jell with 1960s-era individualism, he says. "You gave up the fun of eating potato chips, looking for the big ones, the small ones, the ones shaped liked Elvis." Lempert said it took consumers years to appreciate Pringles' uniform size, shape and color. "The Pringles can was a revolution within the realm of snack food," says Baur...
...status this season. His 88 wins at the Crimson helm put him second on the all-time win list, behind only Joe Restic’s 117 career victories, and his seven consecutive seasons with at least seven victories are the longest such streak for Harvard in the modern era of college football...
...they obviously did for us.”Before the Ivy League season began, Harvard collected just one victory while playing one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the nation. The competition pounded the pitching staff and was a major reason why the Crimson’s team ERA spiked to 6.20 in 2008 after the squad led the Ivies with a 4.37 mark last season.Offensively, Harvard never felt comfortable in the preseason and had particular trouble during its spring break trip to California, in which it scored just 1.8 runs per game.“In the preseason...
...ongoing case against heavy-handedness, hegemonic or otherwise: The fledgling totalitarianism of Musharraf and Putin’s more robust brand seem to point in the same dreadful direction. Mistakes were indeed made at home and abroad—but progress may be on the way. Bush-era policies characterized by brash belligerence and simple overextension appear poised to be reversed, sophisticated, and otherwise repaired. Perhaps America, its lesson learned, can proceed along a middle path, spurning isolationism and unilateralism with one gesture, and march forward, in step with allies old and new, into an uncertain future...
...official at the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated last summer that executions will be stepped up in the next two years, and may approach the frequency of the Depression era, when there were three executions a week. Any attempt to stop the spate of killings must begin quickly. Public debate has nearly ended—the Times buried Brooks’ execution on page 28. Unless those with an interest in justice step forward soon, we will see the issue turned over to people like the pro-execution demonstrators outside the prison in Huntsville. They posed for the cameras with...