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Forget that hockey match the U.S. won 22 years ago in Lake Placid. The real miracle on ice happened last week, when Australian Steven Bradbury, 28, won his country's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal. With only one lap to go in the men's short track speed skating 1,000-m final, Bradbury, who'd never had a world-class solo victory, was trailing far behind the other four skaters. Then the pack crashed and Bradbury cruised past the carnage from worst to first. "I was like, 'Hang on a minute, I think I just won,'" Bradbury told...
...Jodie Morse. Reported by Alice Park/Salt Lake City and Steven Frank and Leigh Anne Williams/Toronto
...recession as a classic opportunity to invest near the bottom--and with less money pouring in, those who do invest get better terms. Venture-capital managers who had been demanding fees equal to 30% of profits--up from the normal 20%--may not be so cocky going forward, notes Steven Galante, president of Asset Alternatives, a Wellesley, Mass., research firm. And for those who put their money in private equity, the corporate books allow the kind of transparency that stock-market investors crave post-Enron. To secure seed money for start-ups and spin-offs, companies grant private managers broad...
...laptop computers were stolen from a Quincy House suite on Thursday, said Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Steven G. Catalano...
...wake of recent commitments to diversity by both University President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman, many students would like to see progress in the form of a strong and formal commitment to ethnic studies. It is unfair that students currently interested in ethnic studies have no tutorials to learn its methodology, no coordinated advising, no set curriculum and a limited selection of disconnected courses. To address these problems, several principal changes must be made. The ad-hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies should be elevated to a standing committee. A Latino and Latin American Studies, Native-American studies...