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Ferguson struggled yesterday in the championship game, when Brown scored on six of its 25 shots. On Saturday, however, she simply had Harvard's number. When sophomore defenseman Angela Ruggiero wound up for an uncontested slapper in the high slot that could have won the game in overtime, the reigning ECAC Goaltender of the Week came out of the splits and swiped the puck out of the air to keep the Big Green alive...
...John McCain suspended his presidential campaign, the telephone number at his Arizona mountain retreat became the hottest 10 digits in politics. Callers ranged from Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, who refrained (for the moment) from begging McCain to launch an independent bid, to George W. Bush, who awkwardly thanked McCain for his gracious exit without daring to ask for the endorsement the Senator had so pointedly withheld. But the ones who dialed en masse were the would-be peacemakers--the Bush emissaries, McCain intermediaries and unallied freelance negotiators--trying to save the Republican Party by brokering a postprimary reconciliation. Party chairman...
...speed, memory and hard drive, the X-box is beefier than any other games console, including the much ballyhooed PlayStation 2. Early demonstrations are jaw-droppingly good. Imagine 1,024 Ping-Pong balls on screen--the engineers take geekish delight in disclosing the exact number--bouncing around like crazy on a varnished oak floor, springing 1,024 mousetraps. Or 1,024 butterflies fluttering organically round a Japanese garden where plants sway gently in a breeze you can almost feel on your cheek. It's like watching your first Pixar movie, except you're the director--making butterflies scatter...
...money we save on central costs goes to the schools, and a portion goes to the bottom line," Whittle says. His goal is a 7%-to-8% profit margin. "If we were simply going to cut overall costs," he notes, "we would not be viable." Whittle puts the magic number of schools that Edison needs to run in order to make a profit at 440, a figure that he expects to hit within five years...
...growing number of companies are prepared to face that challenge. In Philadelphia, Nobel Learning Communities, which runs 145 private preschools and elementary schools in 13 states, launched its first public school, the Philadelphia Academy Charter School, in a former airplane-parts plant last fall. Nobel plans to open at least five more charter schools by the end of the year. "There is absolutely no way you'll make a profit unless you have a quality program," says A.J. Clegg, CEO of Nobel, which earned $1.6 million on revenues of $110 million last year. New wrinkles at Nobel's Philadelphia school...