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Most fleet racing regattas feature two divisions, and the four-boat format rewards teams with a broad talent base...
Last November Ohio passed one of the nation's most far-reaching gay-marriage bans. It prohibits not only gay marriage but also any relationship that "intends to approximate" marriage. Now that broad language is being used in an array of unlikely legal cases. Dozens of Ohio men charged with domestic abuse, for example, are prepared to argue in court that domestic-violence laws, which carry stiffer penalties than standard assault charges, no longer apply to them, since they are not married to the women they're accused of beating. Legal experts fear they may be right. "It's very...
...fast--it rarely does--so expect more hearings, say House reform-committee members. Some members want to call more players and perhaps baseball trainers to prove that baseball has long known about the steroid use. Rather than single out baseball, the House might try to create broad steroid restrictions for all sports or adopt the tough Olympic standard...
...Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim's "Dungeon" has all it takes to be as big here as in Europe - except maybe the support of a broad, comix-reading audience. Too bad. It's one of the best comedy / adventure comics in print, filled with amusing characters, great visual imagination and involving stories. You should let it take you away on the back of a hipplodontus...
...cynical take on the Core curriculum will cause many a recent Harvard graduate to nod in agreement. Douthat suggests a Columbia-style great books curriculum as an alternative, allowing Harvard undergraduates to gain a traditional, broad-based liberal arts education in lieu of the narrow, overly specific “approaches to knowledge” introduced in esoteric classes like Literature and Arts C-42, “Constructing the Samurai” and Literature and Arts B-31, “The Portrait.” No argument here—undergrads have wasted too much time learning about...