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...time, each school’s Hillel and the Christian Fellowship chose to stay independent. According to club officials, “separate functions” made a merger unnecessary...
...Harley-Davidson in the motorcycle business. The Staubach Co., the commercial real estate broker, pushed to expand nationally before other tenant-rep firms did. Intuit faced down Microsoft twice, in the personal-financial-management-software business and in the small-business-accounting business. In each of these cases, competitors chose to play it safe and consolidate their winnings rather than double down in a market. They learned the hard way that the only safe bet in business is the one in which a firm continues to play aggressively as the stakes of the game increase...
...coast, but both have had lingering ties to Cambridge. According to DeLong, MIT offered a position to Christina Romer but not her husband in the early 1990s. And under former University President Neil L. Rudenstine, the couple passed both the ad hoc and approval from Mass. Hall, but ultimately chose to stay in California, Delong said...
...Obama has renewed questions about whether McCain has the temperament to be President. A few years ago, in friendlier times, the Senator and I talked about the Cuban missile crisis. At a crucial moment, John F. Kennedy received two messages from the Soviets - one bellicose, one accommodating. He chose to ignore the bellicose message and very likely saved the world. "You probably would've chosen the wrong message," I teased McCain. "I probably would have," he laughed. He was joking, but given his behavior of late, you've got to wonder...
...Proposition 22, a state referendum from 2000 that passed with over 60 percent of the vote, voters chose to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Whether or not one agrees with that definition, the court cannot and should not strike it down without a legitimate reason. The role of the judicial branch in protecting minorities extends only to assuring that their constitutional rights are not violated...