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...Crimson now stands tied in second place in the Ivy standings with Yale, trailing league favorite Penn's 2-0 mark. Harvard continues its road trip next Friday by traveling to Manhattan to take on Columbia...
...Alberta does not represent the entire west. British Columbia pointedly elected five fewer Conservatives to Ottawa this month than it did in 2004, and its longstanding competition with Alberta may spell trouble for Harper's government. Even some Albertans wonder whether they may end up regretting their upturn in political fortune. Alberta commentator Ted Byfield fears that the province's fierce sense of self-reliance will be weakened under a Harper government that expects the province to subordinate its resources to the national interest and allows its wealth to "drain" away to other provinces with little in return--especially...
...Economics and the Inevitable," by David Ignatius in The Washington Post "My superstars at Davos this year are the university presidents. Larry Summers at Harvard, Rick Levin at Yale, Lee Bollinger at Columbia and a half-dozen more are transforming their universities into global institutions -- seeking the best students from around the world and sending them to far-flung places to learn the skills that will secure them places among the global elite. 'We want the brilliant mathematician whose mother is a chambermaid in Romania,' says Summers...
...George Washington University District of Columbia...
...recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Dane-zaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia, and moved to Vancouver as a teenager, is of mixed Indian-Swiss parentage. His origins inform his best-known work, Prototypes for New Understanding, above, a series that features Northwest Coast Indian masks painstakingly reassembled from unstitched Nike Air Jordans...