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...event to his gold-medal repertoire, placing first in the 200-yard freestyle with a 1:41.22 swim.Sophomore backstroker Jordan Diekema also posted two individual wins in the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, touching the wall in 47.13 and 50.32, respectively.“I accomplished what I needed to accomplish based on what my coach told me for today,” Diekema said. “I was pretty happy with how I swam.”There was one rough patch disrupting Harvard’s day of smooth sailing, however. In the 1000-yard...
...senior executives, by and large, and those aren't the people who lost all the money," says Alan Johnson, a compensation consultant specializing in financial services. Bringing clawbacks down into the ranks of traders and investment bankers would be almost impossibly complicated, he contends. That, and it might not accomplish much. "Changing the pay system would not have prevented the current crisis at all," says Johnson, because the people taking crazy risks didn't think they were taking crazy risks. Top executives at now defunct Lehman Brothers had most of their wealth tied up in company stock, for example...
...tall task, and one he must accomplish without being dragged down by a department beset by scandal and dysfunction. "Short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior," Earl Devaney, the department's inspector general, testified before Congress in September 2006. While Salazar drew praise from representatives of the oil and mining industries as well as some conservationists, his appointment disappointed a cadre of environmental groups and prominent scientists, more than 100 of whom had signed a petition urging President-elect Barack Obama to tap Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva. Salazar seemed...
...most Crimson athletes in science would not trade the extra hindrances they encounter for a more flexible, but different course of study. Whether pursuing a career in medicine and the sciences, or a simple passion for the subject matter, these athletes are willing to endure various time strains to accomplish their goals...
...Brennan, for Nixon.At the same time, true to its original stage play format, “Frost/Nixon” is a film driven by its acting and directing. At key moments, the soundtrack simply stops, and the performers are left alone before the audience. Langella and Sheen often accomplish with one facial tick what most actors fail to do with their entire bodies. Riveting to behold, “Frost/Nixon” is a wonderful exercise in toned-down storytelling that’s uncharacteristic of ratcheted-up Hollywood. We are reminded in the interview scenes that...