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...finishing in the top three. And with a third-place performance, Harvard is indeed heading to the team racing national championships, held in the last weekend of May at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Accustomed to the flat water of the Charles River, the Crimson had to adjust to the choppy conditions on the harbor at New Haven. But gaining experience in trying conditions will pay off at Nationals, where tricky winds and currents will certainly play a role. “We thought we sailed pretty well,” co-captain Clayton Johnson said...
...ideal ranking system, users will be able to adjust the weights various factors, such as school size, average SAT scores, and cost, to find schools that fit them best. We envision an online ranking system that allows tinker with their weighting schemes. (Of course, it is important to exercise caution in weighing rankings, since a college’s worth is based on a wide range of factors.) Evaluations of peer institutions, however, should not be included in the rankings, since they are notoriously difficult to measure...
...metal, and once something goes wrong, it will pour out just as fast. "We're getting a little nervous," concedes Anton Pil at JP Morgan Private Bank. But forecasts like DiGeorgia's are not all that outlandish. We may be in a modest inflationary cycle, and if you adjust for the past 26 years of inflation, gold should be at $2,150 already. Potentially, there is a lot of ground to make...
...Reputations are always going to be slower to adjust,” says Mendes. But “without question, the [current] reputation versus the reality are incongruent...
...String" Dance by Betty (available on the Bettie Page Something Weird Video and on the DVD Betty Page Uncensored), she gives herself a nonstop workout, long before Jazzercise or Ann-Margret. She shimmies, gracefully waves her arms, pauses briefly to adjust her fringed costume. But she never loses eye and mind contact with the viewer. The erotic pull is secondary to the emotional magnetism. This is plain old star quality, and the folks at Fox must have been blind to miss...