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...Eastern Sprints. But the Bears found a little extra on Saturday and did the best out of the crews hailing from east of the Mississippi.“The varsity was a little disappointed,” Parker said. “They probably were just a little bit more tired from the hard racing on Thursday and Friday than they realized. They didn’t quite have enough left. They raced extremely well on Thursday and Friday, and it caught up to them.”Nonetheless, the performance was a vast improvement upon last year?...
...visited a distillery in Kentucky called Buffalo Trace, which takes a rather unique style to making whiskey. Buffalo Trace has what they call an "experimental" line, and what they do is they try a little bit of everything to see what kind of taste variations they can get. They do all sorts of things there, they use rice in their mash, they use different ages, different kinds of barrels. The one I had was aged in a cabernet cask. There are a great many people who love whiskey who take themselves very seriously. And the ironic part of that...
...None of this is unfamiliar to Western religious traditions. Roman Catholic Popes are supposedly chosen by the divine intervention of the Holy Spirit upon a conclave of cardinals - yet many have proven less than holy, and wars have been fought over successions. A bit like Catholics through the ages, says Baran, Tibetan Buddhists "assess a tulku's wisdom not by his title, but by his piety and learning." The monks try to pick the bright and promising children, he says; but Tibetans also assume the weeding-out function of the extensive tulku education: "no matter who they pick, the best...
...North America? he was asked. Not a chance? His smile dissipated a bit, and he said, simply...
...deal was being struck close to the low point in the current financial crisis. Over recent months the market decided that the worst of the crisis was over, and life's likely to get better. The Chinalco deal went from looking like a win-win to looking a bit cheap," he says...