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...With Wall Street leading most of the world's stock markets outside Japan to record highs, the dollar vaulting higher, and foreign investment continuing to pour in, the U.S. is continuing to enjoy its second longest peacetime recovery. And there appears to be no end in sight...
...such team is woman's squash, who won the Howe Cup this past weekend at Yale. The Howe Cup is squash's equivalent of the national championship. This cup was Harvard's eleventh overall and fifth in a row. This streak is the longest in Howe Cup history, and it also gives Head Coach Bill Doyle more national championships than any other coach...
...longest droughts in Celtic history (drought defined as consecutive years without a championship) have occurred during years when the ownership of the Celtics was not committed to winning championships. In the early 70s, John Y. Brown's ego forced Red to actually contemplate switching to the Knickerbockers. The current 'kid Gaston' era is an even bigger disgrace. Money won't be spent on free agents; there will no inventive trades around the salary cap (or mounting a legal challenge to the rule set up to keep the Celts and Lakers at bay); they won't hire competent coaches and general...
...finale is by far the longest and most formally complex movement of the four, and the one in which a mediocre performance will lose the audience most quickly. It was again the unity of the strings that put this one over the top. The brass and winds, too, played energetically without over-looking nuances. In one particularly affecting moment, Dohnanyi appeared to close his eyes and put his hand over his heart. The orchestra performed the penultimate passage so brightly that the coda seemed superfluous...
...franchise with the longest name in American professional sports, the New York-New Jersey Metrostars, last Sunday drafted one of the shortest stars in all of NCAA soccer, a left-footed attacking midfielder by the name of Will Kohler...