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Senior Robbie Griffin (165 lbs.) came up with the biggest individual upset of the day to help secure Harvard’s victory. Having lost earlier in the day and down 7-4 midway through the final period to No. 9 Noel Thompson, the situation looked bleak for Griffin...
...With its complex blend of genres, the play is risky. But Gao's equanimity runs deep. Friends speak of his Zen-like detachment, what his French translator Noel Dutrait calls his "unshakable faith" in himself. "He can be in the center, yet not of the center," observes one of his English translators, Prof. Gilbert Fong. "This is what he tries to capture in his writing." For Gao, detachment is just another word for freedom, the freedom to live and to write what he described in his Nobel acceptance speech as "cold literature," art that "refuses to be strangled by society...
Like the jeans and sandals she often wears to work, Potter's casual demeanor can be deceiving. Says Noel Tichy, a University of Michigan business professor who profiled Potter (along with CEOs like GE's Jack Welch) for his book, The Cycle of Leadership: "I've watched her with her people, and she puts them out of their comfort zone. She's not an easy person to work for if you don't want to be pushed." Yet "she never misses an opportunity to give the credit to someone else," says Claudia Estrin, a colleague of Potter's since...
...topped the bargain list, followed by Indianapolis, Ind., at $147,000. Most expensive were Honolulu at $265,000 and Los Angeles at $217,000. GetThere says automated meeting planning can save time and money, but the firm doesn't vouch for amenities in the cities. Says GetThere spokeswoman Noel Bilodeau: "I know nothing about Jacksonville...
...unprotected database can seem like Fort Knox compared with wireless communications. "On a wired or fiber system, there's a physical path that someone has to penetrate. With wireless, the geographic area and the technology to access it are much, much broader," says Noel Matchett, president of Information Security, based in Silver Spring, Md., and a former National Security Agency cryptographer...