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...Bradman, the Chappells and other past players, reaching the ton was surely no less satisfying. Yet they managed to confine their celebrations to removing their cap and acknowledging, with a raising of their bat, the applause of the crowd. Today's leaping, fist-pumping performances - unleashed no matter what the state of play - are merely self-indulgent. When they follow upon the defeat of an opponent, they smack of triumphalism. The century-maker directs his attention first and foremost at his teammates. During this exchange of joy and gratitude, there might as well be no one else at the ground...
Hayek, an actress who has starred in “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” and “Frida” (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award), was this year’s honoree. Donning rhinestone-studded jeans and a Harvard baseball cap, she was the picture of a gracious, humorous, and lovely host...
...rigorous” concentrations that fail to prepare students for graduate school. While the EPC urges all concentrations to limit the number of required courses to a level consistent with the goals of a broad liberal arts education, we have no interest in stipulating a course cap for individual students. In most departments, it makes sense for students who intend to pursue graduate studies to take more courses than students with other goals, and this is precisely the reason why a minimum number of concentration credits should not be calculated to suit the small number of students who intend...
...Canadians prevail, men's hockey gold would cap what is shaping up to be one of the country's finest winter performances ever. There were certainly high expectations. The Canadian Olympic Committee (coc) brazenly targeted third place in the overall medal standings--likely requiring 25 medals, compared with the 17 that Canada took home four years ago. Canada might not make it, especially after several failure-to-convert performances in the Games' opening days. As the unfulfilled expectations initially piled up--as when all four female snowboarders failed to qualify for the half-pipe final, or when Emily Brydon finished...
...model anticipated that increase, which means that all current predictions about how much sea level could rise--the latest U.N. report estimated it at a half-meter (about 1.5 ft.) by the end of the century--are too low and will have to be revised upward. Greenland's ice cap covers more than 650,000 sq. mi. and in places stands nearly 2 miles thick. "If it all melted or otherwise slid into the ocean, sea level would rise by 20 ft. or so," says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton. Under conventional global-warming...