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...failing to appreciate that, in some way or another, the Canadian economy was smoking its U.S. counterpart. Growth in Western Canada had been blistering for years. Construction boomed. Across the country, employment rose. Toronto Blue Jays CEO Paul Godfrey told a U.S. radio station in October that each one-cent increase in the loonie was saving him $600,000 a year in U.S.-dollar player salaries...
...throwing books at store clerks, enraged by the stickers printed up months in advance that forced Canadians to pay up to 30% more than Americans for the same goods. On Nov. 7, the day the loonie reached $1.10 U.S., the currency's value swerved and swung over a three-cent range in a single day - a difference that for the Blue Jays, at least, means most of the annual salary for slugger Alex Rios. "Volatile," Bank of Canada governor-to-be Mark Carney calls the dollar fluctuations. No kidding...
...Harvard students have been known to riot when “Knuck If You Buck” comes on. What does that mean? MM: Um, well, what do you think it means? 6. FM: Probably something inappropriate?MM: I think you’re probably right. 7.FM: When 50 Cent and Kanye both dropped albums in the same week, which did you buy? MM: I really enjoy Kanye’s CD, but if I were in a mood to do mindless hip movement it’d be 50 Cent. 8.FM: Who’s the greatest rapper...
...worth applying to, and which aren’t.Enter U.S. News and World Report’s College Rankings, the magazine’s cash cow. U.S. News has perfectly capitalized on the zeitgeist of today’s hyper-involved parents and their overachieving children, milking every cent from their anxiety. The idea is so powerful that the magazine has started rankings for pretty darn near everything that can be ranked—from hospitals to high schools. With respect to college rankings at least, which we are best positioned to judge, the rankings do far more harm than...
...skin or Hillary’s skin, it’s more to do about the issues,” she said. A black volunteer said that Obama gave her children hope that they too could be president. “He’s more than just 50 Cent and Jay-Z,” her son said. Though Obama has been lagging behind Clinton in the polls, he has overtaken her in the latest Iowa poll. Berkenfeld said that Obama won the Harvard College Democrats’ straw poll at their convention...