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...Crimson (3-3, 0-0 Ivy League) must recover from Tuesday's hard-fought 68-64 loss to Boston University. After falling behind at halftime by a margin of 33-23, the Crimson was forced to play catch-up for the rest of the game and eventually ran out of steam. Although they were able to cut the lead down to 52-48 late in the second half, the Terriers never let them get closer than four points...
...young people who can use the incredible tools we have received here to make the world a better place. We have an obligation to give back to those who deserve it most, and not just incidentally if it is convenient for us and for our investment bank's profit margin...
...free with a time of 53.37, and was a member of the winning 800 free and 400 medley relay teams. But especially impressive and contributing heavily to the victory were the performances of the Crimson's freshman and sophomore women, who accounted for much of Harvard's winning margin...
...fair to Boies et al, the DOJ still has plenty of juicy material to feed on. Its latest witness, economist Frederick Warren-Boulton, brought out one tasty tidbit Tuesday: Microsoft, he said, had an "astonishing" 38.5 percent profit margin -- more than any other high-tech firm in the Fortune 500. How, then, can this company claim that it doesn't derive benefits from its monopoly position? After all, there's one thing the AOL deal hasn't changed: 89 percent of those Netscape browsers are going to be viewed on a Microsoft-operated machine. Windows, too, is a beast that...
...largest private exporter of Dominican sugar? The Fanjuls, thanks in part to their long-standing relationship with the Dominican Republic's politicians. Through a subsidiary, Central Romana Ltd., the brothers grow sugar cane and operate the world's largest sugar mill there. The profit margin is substantial, partly because cane cutters on the island earn about $100 a month, making production costs much lower than in Florida. From their Dominican plantation the Fanjuls export roughly 100,000 tons of raw, duty-free sugar each year...