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...April's Ivy League championships, for instance, the Crimson and Big Green tied for second in team competition behind Princeton. Dartmouth's Brian Kim also took the top individual spot over Harvard junior Joel Radtke by just one stroke...
...masterly stroke even for the software industry's master strategist-or at least it seemed so at the time. When Bill Gates announced last October that Microsoft would buy Intuit -- maker of the popular "electronic-checkbook" program Quicken -- it looked as if the software giant would not only eliminate a meddlesome competitor but also gain an instant beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal...
...actually lost a little bit off the start," stroke Matt Emans said. "They had a quicker start than...
DIED. GUNTER GUILLAUME, 68, East German spy whose embarrassing infiltration of Willy Brandt's office forced the West German Chancellor's resignation in 1974; of a stroke; in Eggersdorf, Germany. Working his way up through the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, Guillaume became a personal aide to Brandt after he was elected in 1969; Guillaume's close relationship with Brandt allowed him unfettered access to secrets, a breach he exploited fully...
...program) for no other reason than to borrow from Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By the time the play ends with a quote from The Waste Land, despite its near-irrelevance to what has come before, we are not surprised; the temptation to play with his literary knowledge, and stroke the audience by allowing it to recognize his references, is evidently too great to resist...