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...proud Adams resident and FM columnist Vinnie Chiappini clambered into a turquoise lifeguard chair and heckled mercilessly into his megaphone at non-residents from his perch. Those denied swipe access were given mere seconds to scan the dining hall for a friendly Adamsian face before Chiappini and his helpers broke into a rousing chorus of a hearty tune as the meek freshman or quadling slunk away in red-faced shame...
...competition began on Thursday and continued through Saturday with preliminaries raced each morning and finals held in the evenings. The Crimson accumulated 1,311.5 points over the three-day meet to finish second overall in a close battle with the Tigers (1663.5). Harvard claimed multiple first-place finishes and broke seven meet records on the way to a successful Ivy Championships. The Crimson entered the meet 8-1 on the season with a 6-1 winning record against Ancient Eight opponents and was looking to capture the Ivy League title for the second year running. Harvard was also seeking revenge...
...when news broke late last week that two top nominees for the Treasury Department were withdrawing their names from consideration for undisclosed personal reasons, what ordinarily might have been dismissed as a harmless staffing snafu became the latest cause for unease among those watching Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Geithner - who at 47 still looks like the Doogie Howser of economists - has had difficulty filling out his roster of lieutenants; he wasn't helped when Paul Volcker, the old lion who got the U.S. out of its last deep recession, described Treasury's staffing woes as "shameful." (See TIME...
...only four years ago that Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky stood in front of a buoyant crowd of victorious Republicans at a Lincoln Day dinner in Louisville and broke down in tears about his friend Mitch McConnell. "I hope everybody here understands how much he stuck his neck out for me through thick and thin during that race last year," Bunning, 77, said pointing to Kentucky's senior senator, the number two Senate Republican at the time and the key architect of the GOP's astonishing ascendancy in the state over the previous decade. McConnell, 67, had indeed spent much...
...offers help on all fronts to those lucky enough to win one of 70 beds in its granite-stone facility in West Harlem known as the Castle - a former Catholic girls' school, yeshiva and onetime crack house. Though the organization is dealing with its own budget cutbacks, it recently broke ground for a $43 million mixed-use building right next door, which will have 114 units. As more ex-cons re-enter society, the Fortune Society expects it will soon be working with about 5,000 people a year, up from about...