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...Former New Hampshire forward Carisa Zaban tied the game in the final minutes of the first period with a spectacular individual effort. She darted up the right wing, skated through a defender, then flipped a backhander over St. Pierre...
...Show: Stephen Scott's Son... There are a couple of major productions going up this weekend. One of them is rumored to be a spectacular bust (which makes it worth seeing, no?), while the other-Stephen Scott's Son-should be a resounding triumph. Directed by Andrew Boch and written by hotshot playwright Michael Ragozzino '01, Scott's Son examines the differences between fame and greatness in a fanciful story of father and son. It's building buzz and will be a hot ticket when it opens in the Loeb Ex this Thursday night...
...beginnings of the new mind-set probably go back as far as the stock- market crash of 1987, which had little immediate effect on the overall economy but gave many people an uneasy feeling about the Roaring Eighties. The spectacular failures of such '80s heroes as Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. ''The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with...
...Instead of exchanging Christmas presents, many have started making contributions in the names of their friends. Even more impressive, more than 98 million Americans - about half of all adults - volunteered their time to charitable organizations in 1989, a 23% increase from two years earlier. Voluntary efforts range from the spectacular to the simply heartwarming. In Los Angeles real estate broker Eric Broida regularly volunteers at the Union Rescue Mission, where he serves meals to the homeless. ''A couple of years ago, I went down one night to help out, and it just felt right,'' he says. ''I felt good...
...While spectacular growth for the handheld market seems certain, no one is quite sure who will be the biggest winner. A year ago, the obvious answer was Palm, which has sold more than 11 million PDAs to date and now claims some 60% of the retail market, according to tracking firm NPD Intelect. But Palm is paying for its decision, made a few years back, to license its operating system to other hardware makers. The idea was to achieve a critical mass of PDAs that would make the entire market viable and attract ever more software developers to create applications...