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...free market, nothing sparks excellence like competition. Substandard products get weeded out, inefficient firms go bankrupt and better goods get produced. But not everybody likes competition. Bureaucracies often fight to defend substandard products by insulating themselves from competition. At Harvard, the age-old impulse to avoid competition has just taken an ironic twist: members of the Economics Department, that bastion of free-market fundamentalism, voted on April 9 to prevent one of their own from offering an alternative...
...clear that Harvard was, too. Mann brushed himself off and came around to score on a two-base error by Yale outfielder Chris Elkins, helping the Crimson to an 11-1 win to sweep the doubleheader day. Just like that, after running into two costly outs and failing to defend a double-steal play in a 9-8, 11th-inning loss on Friday, Harvard had taken three of four from the Bulldogs and seized a full-game lead atop the Red Rolfe Division standings...
...They were always moving,” freshman goaltender Kristin Demorest said. “When they passed and when they caught, they were always moving their feet, which made them very hard to defend...
...seems like every year folks from East and West alike have to sing L.A.’s praises. East coasters point to the beaches, waves, temperatures that rarely drop into the 60s and wide-open spaces. And native Southern Californians often fanatically defend their home, usually relying on arguments that have something to do with how L.A. is so “laid back” or how living there is a “way of life, dude...
Since most of the antibiotics used today are derived from plants and other organisms that use them to naturally defend themselves from infection, bacteria have had plenty of time to develop resistance to these chemicals, he said...