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...bottom line is that the Crimson must post two victories over lesser teams this weekend if it entertains any hopes of a solid finish in the ECAC...
Forecasters at many local TV stations seemed, to paraphrase E.B. White, almost to be rooting for the storm on Sunday and Monday. "Local weather coverage has assumed tabloid proportions," TIME's Sam Allis reports from Boston, where television stations have promoted the storm and even recent, lesser bombardments "as if they are events of biblical proportions. One tunes into the eleven o'clock news to find scary, Siberian-like numbers written across a regional weather map. Only later do we find out that the minus forty-one registered in Worcester is, in fact, the wind-chill factor...
...city where bureaucrats fear their own shadows, Kessler is an anomaly. He seems to make decisions not for political expediency but because he sincerely believes he is doing right. In the process, he has amassed a list of powerful foes that would make lesser men pack up and leave town. He has enraged the tobacco industry, the vitamin industry and the medical-device industry. A self-described Republican, he has alienated most of Congress's Republican majority, including Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, his former boss and mentor. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has called him a "bully...
...Board of Overseers, Harvard's lesser governing board, had tabled the proposal for the Civil War memorial at its meeting last month...
...longest time, there was the mindset that men are the normative standard," says Healy, a former member of Harvard's lesser governing board, the Board of Overseers. "As a result, it just somehow, curiously escaped people's minds...