Word: massed
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With the loss to B.U., the NCAA Tournament picture for the Crimson looks murky. There are approximately 12 teams that whose berths appear to be secure, while there is a mass of eight or so teams, including Harvard, B.U., B.C. and New Hampshire fighting for the last four spots...
...assistant deans of freshmen do seem to try to give people from warmer places locals as roommates. My roommate, who hails from Newton, Mass., advises that cold weather is best dealt with by dressing lightly and running from place to place. When it started snowing yesterday, he wore a long-sleeved shirt and a light fleece vest. Being cold in October toughens you up for when it really gets frigid in December, he reasons...
...Xerox's estimated share of the $1.3 billion-a-year, high-end, black-and-white production copier market in the U.S., where the real money is made, dropped from the near monopoly level of 75% to 45%, according to Cap Ventures, a document consulting firm in Norwell, Mass. "This transition has played to our strengths," says Dennis Amorosano, a marketing director at Canon, which has used its networking savvy--as well as lower manufacturing and overhead costs that make its machines 10% to 30% cheaper--to steal some of Xerox's business...
Barbara Kingsolver's reputation achieved something like critical (and commercial) mass with The Poisonwood Bible (1998). Her three earlier novels, The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dreams (1990) and Pigs in Heaven (1993), built a considerable readership, particularly among women, as offbeat, eco-feminist romances, and Kingsolver could have gone on repeating the elements that made those books popular: independent females vaguely adrift in the U.S. Southwest with strong views on such matters as honoring Native American rights and sheltering Latin American political refugees. But she extended her range dramatically in Poisonwood, a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories...
DIED. KONRAD BLOCH, 88, German-born co-winner of a 1964 Nobel for discovering how the body produces cholesterol; of heart failure; in Burlington, Mass...