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...this period the Corporation was expanding Harvard into the research and teaching institution we see today, and taking greater interest in the University's finances. But one of Harvard's worst financial crises ever occurred during the American Revolution, when noted patriot John Hancock served as the Corporation's Treasurer...
...grabbed my head to see if my hair was still there," said Art Hancock, Executive Vice President of Jack Daniel Distillery, theTennessee sour-mash whisky maker. "In the past two years, we have had so much adverse publicity about the effects of hard liquor, it is almost like having Prohibition back." His worry is premature. According to Gavaler, phytoestrogen is also prevalent in wheat, rice and hops, as well as peanut, soybean and olive...
Second, the Sox have a long history of rushing players through their farm system. Boston has one of the best farm systems around, but player after player from Rogilio Moret, to Gary Hancock, to Oil Can Boyd this year, was pushed too fast and suffered for it. Now, no player will tell the team he needs another year in the minors, but Lee drives home the point that the team's desire to win at the moment hurt it in the long...
...been a mean year at Claiborne. The master of the farm, Seth Hancock, was also the main syndicator of Devil's Bag, thought to be a superhorse last year when a $36 million breeding future was arranged. Following lame three-year-old performances, he was actually declared slightly lame and retired to stud at Claiborne. In Trainer Woody Stephens' barn and heart, Swale started the year a second-stringer. What Swale's worth as a stallion might have been and how much insurance covered him are included in the mystery. But $50 million and $15 million...
...Owings, 81, boisterous co-founder and senior partner of the architectural leviathan Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who presided over more than $3 billion of construction during his 40-year career, including such prestigious and innovative design commissions as New York City's Lever House, Chicago's towering John Hancock Building, and San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach Building; of lung cancer; in Jacona...