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...Sacramento's Reggie Theus, just got the news on Monday. That's a new record for axings before Christmas. The other casualties include Sam Mitchell, the 2006-07 NBA Coach of the Year for the Toronto Raptors, fired by the club on Dec. 3; Maurice Cheeks, the beloved ex-champion point guard for the Philadelphia 76ers, canned by the Sixers last weekend despite winning widespread admiration for turning Philly into a playoff team a year ago; Eddie Jordan, the first coach in 28 years to lead the Washington Wizards to four straight playoff appearances, cut down after...
...Meanwhile, Dartmouth is coming off a tough second-straight road loss to defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth. Despite the loss, senior goaltender Carli Clemis made a career-high 48 saves, including 17 in the second period alone. Harvard must find a way to get past Clemis—who has registered a .942 save percentage—if it wants a chance for victory...
Amid a horrific financial crisis, all we hear are calls for more of the money-printing, spending and subsidies that created this mess. So I choose my great teacher, Ludwig von Mises, champion of the Austrian School of economics, who taught us how a central bank like the Fed causes booms and busts and how to build prosperity through sound money and economic freedom...
...inspire our nation to move with a united effort to mitigate climate change, Harvard must take the lead in building a sustainable future. University Hall can hang all the green banners it wants, but Harvard must take real financial and social action if it wants to be a true champion of the environmental cause...
...dear reader: I thought a thick envelope from Harvard senior year would come with some thick biddies, but that April I found myself taking my mother to the prom again. Of course, she ended up leaving in a limo with the Quiz Bowl Team’s buzz-in champion, Eddie “Fast” Fingers. Again. That summer, I got a job as a pool cleaner, hoping to meet all the stay-at-home moms. It turns out the opening scenes of all those movies are a bit misleading. I got nothing but algae. So much algae...