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...inning marathon, which the New York finally won, 7-6. (Unlike the World Series, which have all been played at night since 1987, the Championship Series still offers a taste of post-season baseball during the day - although this year there will be only two late afternoon starts for the ALCS, and one for the NLCS.) While traveling back to New York, the Mets commemorated their National League title by getting wasted, starting a massive food fight and completely trashing the plane...
...really worried," says Jonathan Miller, the state's secretary for finance and administration. "We had encountered a lot of pessimism and skepticism that we'd be able to sell these bonds." Bolstered by how the Kentucky issue went, Ohio followed with a $240 million offering of its own that afternoon. "While the floodgates won't necessarily open, things aren't quite as dire as people have thought," says Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers...
...your weekend…how was it?” Maxwell shouted to Livingstone over the loud humming of the ellipticals. “Weekend schm-eekend,” the multi-tasker responded, “I’ve been busy with a WIB conference since Friday afternoon.” She continued stroking the pearl of her mobile device, gazing at email after email, appointment after appointment. Apparently remembering that networking with any person in any place is any business leader’s best asset, Livingstone put down the Pearl and turned to Maxwell...
...first time ever, a European Commissioner for the Environment traveled to Boston to discuss environmental issues, speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School in the afternoon after meeting with Democratic State Senator Mark R. Pacheco. Stavros Dimas’ talk at the Kennedy School focused on the European Union’s proactive commitment to tackling climate change—the body’s “number one priority”—and entreated the United States to follow suit. “There is a domestic part and an international part to our [environmental] legislation...
...Truth is an aspiration, not a possession,” I heard our president pronounce on a damp and dreary October afternoon last year. My stomach turned. Before my eyes was grand old Harvard on parade, splendidly arrayed in academic robes and bonnets, in all of its pomp and pageantry, installing its new president according to the customary prescription. Yet with a few derisive words about Harvard’s Puritan heritage from Drew Gilpin Faust and her counterpart at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann ’71, that visible visible continuity—between the Harvard...