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They didn't go out and celebrate that day. Woz wouldn't even quit his day job designing chips for calculators at Hewlett-Packard until months later, after Jobs had sold his Volkswagen bus for seed money. Nobody, not even Jobs, saw what was coming next: that Apple would create the look and feel of every desktop in the world and start our love affair with the personal computer. --By Lev Grossman
Despite Delaney-Smith’s wishes, the Wildcats’ season ended Tuesday when Notre Dame, the No. 11 seed, upset them 59-53 and snapped their 22-game home win streak...
...Playing the nightcap in Worcester is No. 1 seed UNH and No. 4 seed St. Cloud State. No. 2 seed BU, as the host school of the regional, was guaranteed a spot at Worcester, but Harvard’s placement at the local site came as something of a surprise. Most prognosticators expected the Crimson to play at Providence against Maine. Despite the surprise, the team was very confident when its opponent was announced Sunday night on ESPN...
...kitchenware retailer, and apparel maker Garan (of Garanimals fame). That's promising. It suggests a value gap between the private and public markets because Buffett finds most common stocks still overvalued. Meanwhile, private-asset funds are a contrarian's delight: net new investment in venture-capital funds, which mainly seed technology and medical start-ups, plunged to $1.9 billion last year (the least since '81) amid investment losses that roughly tracked the public markets. Yet over three years and longer, these funds have outperformed stocks. "The tourists have all left town," quips Jesse Reyes, a manager at the research firm...
Balance will be key against the Wildcats. But being the underdog has never stopped Harvard women before—in 1998, the Crimson, led by Alison Feaster ’98, was a 16-seed, playing top-seeded Stanford on the Cardinal’s home court. Harvard emerged with a 71-67 win, becoming the only 16-seed in the history of NCAA basketball, men’s or women’s, to knock off a No. 1. The precedent for high expectations has been set, and Sunday will show if the Crimson can make big news...