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...member of HCSUCS. The more hilarious team is voted the winner and proceeds to the next round, attempting to out-funny other college quipsters. Last year, HCSUCS members representing Harvard went to the competition against a fully-manned Boston College team, but that didn’t put a dent in HCSUCS’s punch lines. “Only four of us went against all of them, but we went up there and we did one of our best performances,” said James. Indeed, Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08 was declared funniest comedian overall...
...February sales were reported, GM owned up to selling 53% fewer cars and trucks than a year ago, while Chrysler admitted that its total fell 44%. Slow sales means slow production, which is where automakers get their revenue, so the results put a real dent in cash flow. At the beginning of the month, GM and Chrysler both had more than five months' supply of unsold cars. (Read about the CEOs behind Detroit's Big Three...
...Tigers would be in control of their own destiny if they hadn’t been mauled by the Bears for Brown’s lone win in the Ivy season. That is a big dent in their title drive. Look for Princeton to exact revenge this weekend...
...spending planned over the next decade which is unnecessary. The Congress may not view it that way, but, even if everyone is in agreement, a spending reduction of $200 billion or $300 billion a year over the next two or three years will not make a substantial enough dent in the deficit to bring it down by half...
...feet - Flight 1549 was at about 3,000 feet, leaving Sullenberger and Skiles a shorter checklist. But experts also note that a controlled landing on water can be more dangerous than a similar emergency landing on land. In a water landing, an aircraft's aluminum skin can bend and dent on impact, providing less protection for passengers. Crashing on a runway often crushes a plane's belly and undercarriage, which absorbs some of the blow. On the other hand, some emergency water landings (both uncontrolled and controlled) have had relatively minor fatalities. This TIME story from 1956 recounts the emergency...