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...Crimson power play bailed out the defense during a game in which the Terriers controlled play from essentially the second period onward. The struggling unit attempted to simplify its strategy and use its strength to crash the net and get rebounds. It worked as two of Harvard's four goals were shots that initially bounced off Tapp...
Senior running back Chuck Nwokocha branded his name into the annals of Crimson history with his 94-yard kickoff return in the second quarter. The return, a nifty scamper down the right sideline where Nwokocha juked and broke tackles before outrunning the entire Yale special teams unit for the final fifty yards, was the longest ever against Yale and the first against the Bulldogs since...
...presidential and vice-presidential nominees of what was then called the Republican Party (which later became the Democratic Party), ended up in an Electoral College tie, with 73 votes each. The choice devolved on the lame-duck House of Representatives, with each state's delegation voting as a unit...
...carve-outs, these divestitures tend to be IPOs of less than 20% of a business. The parent retains the bulk of the stock--and control--but often later gives that stake to shareholders as a tax-free dividend. Early this year 3Com sold 17% of its white-hot Palm unit in an IPO, then gave the rest to shareholders in July. The average carve-out does well. Palm has doubled since July, although it remains below March's mania levels. But parent companies tend to lag in this case (not so 3Com), probably because they have left a sexy business...
...Bombay, 940 people sit at terminals in a huge, air-conditioned hall, working for World Network Services, a unit of British Airways. They perform a variety of long-distance functions--tracking cargo, processing reservations, collating sales--for BA and other carriers. Qualifications for the jobs aren't high. Anyone who knows English and can use a keyboard can apply. WNS general manager Roy Marshall says the company looked at several countries before settling on India. The main reason: so many people speak English that expansion would never be a problem...