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...last week, the producer of quarterback Donovan McNabb's weekly local TV show asked if he would be available for an interview a day before Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Fla. With mock seriousness, McNabb warned that the hoopla of the game, between the Eagles and defending champion New England Patriots, might leave him stretched for time. "Worst case, just get some guy off the street in Jacksonville to go on," McNabb joked. He then found a problem with that plan. "The guy would say, 'Donovan who? A quarterback? You mean like Peyton Manning? Sure you don't mean...
...second Ivy rival to fall victim to the Crimson’s championship campaign this season. Currently the highest-ranked Ivy team in the country, Harvard topped longtime foe Columbia in November, and will face defending Ivy champion Penn this weekend...
...seems Bush believes he has now earned the right to ignore others. But if the president disregards the views of his fellow Americans and of our allies, the U.S. will be too isolated and fractured to champion its own ideals. And if we are not mindful of how the world perceives us, those perceptions will be defined by our enemies...
Globalization's defenders reply by saying, Relax: it will never happen. This counterblast (much of it in a paper written by Columbia University's Jagdish Bhagwati, today's unchallenged intellectual champion of free trade) has two parts. First, free trade's defenders say, it is unrealistic to assume that China or India will suddenly develop a monstrous capacity in high-end, high-technology innovation. "The oft repeated argument that India and China will quickly educate 300 million of their citizens to acquire sophisticated and complex skills," write Bhagwati and his colleagues, "borders on the ludicrous. The educational sectors in those...
...former champion at the French Open - the only grand slam title Federer hasn't won - and an astute player and classy volleyer in his day, the old dog may be able to teach the No. 1 some new tricks. Federer is vague on what those might be - "different angles of thought" is how he puts it - but he doesn't want Roche judged harshly. "It's not the easiest thing for him to start coaching the No. 1 in the world," he says. "I will lose matches, and I don't think we should start blaming him, because...