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...spite of a weak year, the Harvard field hockey team still managed to contribute three players to the 1992 All-Ivy team, announced last week...
Even more surprising was Iacocca's admission that in spite of all his public Japan-bashing, Japan was in fact building superior cars. After the retreat, Chrysler assembled a team of 25 young recruits to spend a year at Honda's plant in Marysville, Ohio, to study everything from its assembly methods to corporate culture, which the Japanese company allowed as a political courtesy. No senior executives went along on the mission. "We wanted open minds not poisoned by Detroit," admits Iacocca. Their report, still secret, led to a greater emphasis on customer satisfaction, an increase in continual training...
Throughout the fall, President Bush's re-election team has invoked John Major as its model of the incumbent who squeaks by in spite of a weak economy and polls predicting his defeat. But if one looks at what has happened to the British Prime Minister since his victory last April, the lesson is different. Major now suffers the lowest approval rating -- just 16% -- ever recorded in postwar popularity polls. A group of M.P.s in his own party is openly attacking his leadership and threatening to bring down his government in a critical vote over Britain's participation...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club's production of Medea tries to be both epic and contemporary, and too often just seems stranded somewhere in between. In an effort to update the tale of the exiled sorceress who kills her children to spite her unfaithful husband, this production offers plenty of modern allusions, which work only with varying success...
Elias' numbers have fallen to the level of mere mortals, because of his three-carry, two-yard game against Holy Cross last week, a game he suited up for in spite of an ankle injury. Before that, Elias was already being fitted for the blue spandex suit and red cape. Check out these Superman-ly, pre-Holy Cross statistics...