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Like in the preseason, Harvard now has a clean slate, as do Penn and Dartmouth. All three teams now start at 0-0 in the Ivy, and if they each can hold off the pesky likes of Princeton, Yale and Cornell, it will come down to the head-to-head match-ups in determining who represents the conference in the NCAA tournament...
...eagles hungry, law firms are taking some of the money that goes to partners--who typically earn a seven-figure "draw"--and redirect it to associates, who do much of the grunt work at Silicon Valley practices like Gunderson Dettmer and blue-chip New York firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. First-year compensation packages will top $140,000, up from under $100,000 just three years ago. The higher wages are designed to ward off dotcoms seeking to hire lawyers directly rather than "rent" them through a firm. "The legal industry is unique in that corporations have...
With all of this tidying up to be done, Rudenstine's slate seems to hold few new items. University officials long ago set their goals and posted their shopping lists. And within the next year or two, the campaign's $2.6 billion gift to Harvard will be neatly wrapped...
...Sources: Slate, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, AP, New York Times
...more than simply remembering the guitar dream, it was the dream's impeccable timing that sold me on its significance. It came to me as I slept during the morning hours of Jan. 1, 2000. There I was, with a clean slate for the next year, if not the next 100 or 1,000, and I had visions of finger plucking dancing in my head. If that's not a sign, well, hell, I don't know what...