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...John McHugh brings a great intellect and strong leadership capabilities to the position of the ranking member. The Republican leadership of the Armed Services Committee could not be in better hands." - Representative Duncan Hunter, on being succeeded by McHugh as ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee. (The Syracuse Post-Standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John McHugh: Obama's Pick for Army Secretary | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Bluegrass Unlimited” as a guide for deciding between Harvard or Yale. She eventually opted for Boston and Cambridge’s legendary bluegrass scene.By the time Brown enrolled at Harvard as a freshman, she had already recorded an album, toured the nation with fiddler Stuart Duncan, and won the Canadian National Banjo Championship.Brown has traveled a unique path to become a Grammy Award-winning artist and co-founder of a record label, Compass Records.But though she first picked up the instrument when she was ten, it was not until 1987 that she was able to make...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of 1984: Allison H. Brown | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...urban youth. More than 50 Chinese TV stations carry NBA games, and viewership in China topped 1 billion last season, according to the NBA. Dozens of magazines are dedicated to covering U.S. hoops, following the exploits of the Little Emperor, the Little Flying Warrior (Kobe Bryant), Stone Buddha (Tim Duncan) and German Racecar (Dirk Nowitzki). (Watch TIME's video "A Free Lesson With: Kobe Bryant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will China Play Ball with the Cleveland Cavaliers? | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

Adams House: Anna Katherine Barnett-Hart, Hattie J. Bluestone, Joanna W. Bronowicka, Julie A. Duncan, Audrey Kim, Matthew M. Spellberg, Alice Speri, Olga Zhulina

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recipients of Hoopes Prizes Announced | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Once we've got our card in hand, our behavior becomes riddled with irrationalities. In one experiment, Drazen Prelec and Duncan Simester of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that people were willing to pay twice as much for basketball tickets when they were using a credit card as opposed to paying cash. Credit-card spending just doesn't feel like real money. In another study, Nicholas Souleles of the University of Pennsylvania and David Gross of the consultancy Compass Lexecon calculated that the typical consumer unnecessarily spends $200 a year in interest payments by keeping a sizable stash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Problem with Credit Cards: The Cardholders | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

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