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...joined the charge last month with its Coach Choice program, in which flyers pay more for the seats most in demand: $15 for the roomier aisle and exit row seats. The airline reports that sales for the program are "running ahead of expectations," despite protests from frequent travelers who claim they would prefer a $5-$10 price hike across the board...
...groups are fraternities. Seniors may choose to live off campus, just as those three lacrosse players chose to do, but again, this is not limited to just athletes. Anyone at Duke can tell you that there is no “basketball house” on campus. Second, Hinshelwood claims that “many [Harvard] students probably couldn’t name a member of our men’s lacrosse team, despite its national ranking.” Nothing could be more true of the lacrosse team at Duke, even though they were ranked second nationally...
...prove their claim, Walt and Mearsheimer quote Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as having said at a meeting in the late 1930s: “After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine...
...editors: I think that Mark Adomanis’ comment today (“Foreign Affairs,” Apr. 3) voices an ignorant viewpoint. His claim that semesters or years spent overseas offer only drinking stories and bragging rights is not reflective of the study abroad experience in general. That many return with such shallow stories is undeniable, and makes one sorry for the “quarter of the college career lost;” but then again, what would those same people have been doing so differently back home that would “maintain America?...
...Crimson barely nudged both Yale and Cornell to claim the 2005 Sprints crown. The top four finishers at last year’s Sprints—Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Navy—will again be fighting for the mere inches of space that so often separate first from second in the EARC...