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Finally, a brief word on Harvard football. Fans, if you can, make plans to go to Penn on Saturday, November 16. This year’s game will almost certainly be eerily akin to last season’s epic battle. Both Harvard and Penn should be undefeated in the Ivy League heading into “The Game before The Game.” With the Ivy Crown likely on the line, the Crimson will face a Penn team that might be even better than last year’s squad. If Harvard can hold on to the ball...
...Owens pulled a Sharpie pen out of his sock, signed the ball and handed it to his financial adviser, who was sitting in the first row. Some, including NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, found the stunt showy, but Owens was not fined for flagrant memorabilia creation. Instead, in a move akin to nabbing Al Capone for tax evasion, Owens was fined $5,000 for having his jersey untucked, an "equipment violation." Owens blamed the problem on opposing players tugging at his jersey. Maybe they just wanted an autograph...
...deficit limits are too rigid "Of all the places to be marooned by a strike I guess this is the best." Emma Marsh, tourist in Venice, after her flight home was canceled when unions launched Italy's second general strike this year "Sentencing Andersen at this point is akin to sentencing someone you've already executed." Jonathan Hamilton, editor of Public Accounting Report, on last week's sentence of Andersen Accounting to five years' probation and a $500,000 fine
Lagemann said the persistent low status of teachers and education in general is emblematic of a movement she called “anti-educationism,” an idea akin to anti-intellectualism. The image grew, she said, out of beliefs that teachers had lower levels of skill and competency than other professionals...
While Pforzheimer House resident Jetta G. Martin ’05 called the rerouting “confusing,” Akin A. Demehin ’03, who lives in Currier House, said she hasn’t been affected...