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...friends and family round for a million pounds. I think we'd raised it, sort of, middle of February, 2000 -- just in time, because the market obviously then crashed three or four weeks later. Once we'd got that, that was really when it became serious, certainly for me, in the sense you suddenly had friends and family who'd put, between them, a million pounds on the line, and you suddenly felt a real sense of responsibility and a real sense of urgency to make it work for them...
...League.The Crimson shot 890 (297-288-305) at the Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J., to take home the trophy, topping defending champions Columbia and perennial powers Princeton and Yale.Harvard dominated the first day of play, scoring the low team mark in both rounds and building a 10-stroke lead going into Sunday’s final round. And the Crimson held on yesterday to capture the first title in team history.Princeton junior Susannah Aboff won the individual crown, but three Harvard players followed her on the leaderboard. Junior Emily Balmert, sophomore Claire Sheldon, and senior captain Jessica Hazlett...
...typically have high winds there and they were even higher [Sunday]. It’s a nice view but not good for golf.” On day one, Harvard shot 300, five shots off the pace set by rival Yale and good enough for second place. Round two’s 312 pushed the Crimson back to fourth after Columbia scorched the field with a 293. Yale held on to first with a 299. Ultimately, Yale came apart on day three, shooting 315 to Columbia’s 304 and cementing the Bulldog’s second place finish...
High school seniors weren’t the only ones waiting by their computers and telephones over spring break for their admissions results: the undergraduates who applied to Harvard Business School’s second-round admissions found themselves in the same situation...
...wildly unrealistic bottom line - that the U.S. needs a long-term military presence in that perpetually brutal noncountry. On taxes, McCain is likely to find himself debating ... himself. He was against the Bush tax cuts before he was for them. He has now proposed a new and costly round of corporate tax breaks - and a summer gasoline-tax holiday that is just the sort of flummery he has traditionally opposed. McCain's insistence on cutting pork-barrel projects from the federal budget is worthy but not very significant - the narcissism of small deductions. He would be better served by announcing...