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...these respects, I’m quite content to be moving on to hopefully greener pastures. But for all the negative aspects of being a Crimson sportswriter (the deadlines, the hours, athlete egos, co-worker egos, etc.), I can’t help but feel deeply saddened by the prospect of leaving it all behind. As profoundly corny as it may sound, there is just something inexplicably magical about what we do at 14 Plympton, and in the Sports Cube in particular. Please bear with me, for the last time in my brief journalistic “career...
...sure, not everyone is a committed procrastinator. But aside from the few dedicated souls who focus exclusively on their studies and are genuinely excited by them, the rest of us are just biding our time until the supposedly greener pastures of “real life.” For us procrastinators, the last-minute rush (and its accompanying motivation) is but the means to the end of finishing academic work, and thus graduating and moving on with life. On Thursday, we will have succeeded...
Becella and her husband will be seeking greener pastures in Ireland next year—where they will move to fulfill their dream of cultivating a garden together...
Looking back now, we recognize that Netscape was simply the blueprint, the unchoreographed start of what would become the greatest bull-market show in history. Taken to market by Frank Quattrone, the now fallen investment banker who would turn Silicon Valley greener than irrigation made the San Joaquin; nurtured by analyst Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley, who would later admit that she was "trying to value companies without any historical valuation tools or rules;" and overfed by hyped-up traders who could buy stock online using their Netscape browser, this deal changed everything. We began to classify every company...
...they always want to play with the boys? Golf megastar Annika Sorenstam won 13 out of 24 tournaments last year on her way to posting the lowest average score in LPGA history. Now she is turning her eyes to greener, er, greens: she has accepted an invitation to compete in the Bank of America Colonial tournament in May, which will make her the first woman in more than 50 years to play in a PGA event. Sorenstam says she is "curious to see if [she] can compete." But experts don't foresee a Billie Jean King--style man-beating--Sorenstam...