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...championship, hosted by the American Contract Bridge League, Zeckhauser was in the mixed pairs contest, and the competition was close...
This was Zeckhauser’s first championship win since 1966, when he won the United States contract bridge pairs championship...
Another problem is national politics. Early last year, Argentina's government terminated a contract with a Suez-led consortium that was providing water services to Buenos Aires. The company also lost its contract to provide water to El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia, after massive protests beginning in 2003 over limited access for poor families. The leader of those protests, Abel Mamani, is the Minister of Water in the government of Evo Morales...
...what terminal they will be traveling from or to, in order to make it easier to share a cab. Essentially, the UC is spending $1,000 of students’ termbill money (more if it decides to renew the service beyond the current two-and-a-half month contract) on a website that House lists, or a cheaply developed message board, could do just as well. Furthermore, the new Web site will face a considerable activation energy barrier to its success—the number of users will have to reach a dauntingly large critical mass before the site becomes...
...said of the article’s authors: “They must be incapable of saying, ‘No.’ Someone saying you should think of applying for the Rhodes is a compliment, not a binding contract.” As with the Rhodes, which does not even obligate the winner to the academic program under which he or she applied, Harvard students are not bound to anything—by applying, enrolling, or attending. Upon admittance, each of us has the power, the intelligence, and the agency to turn Harvard down. And throughout our time...