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...Matheson was a fresh-faced senior at Harvard, his mind focused on sports. His career path was set. He would go from WHRB broadcaster to professional sports announcer, hopefully calling basketball or football games. Eighteen years later, Matheson is not a sportscaster. But he is back at Harvard, sitting on the top floor of the Taubman building, learning the ropes as a new member of the U.S. Congress from Utah's 2nd district...
...could see the convenience factor for students balancing graduate study with jobs and families, older students looking for enrichment or far-flung recruits in the U.S. Army, which just launched a $600 million online learning initiative. But I had more trouble with the vision of millions of doe-eyed eighteen year-olds dialing up for degrees without leaving their desks. Sure, digital diplomas are often cheaper than the traditional parchment ones, but I assumed that virtual students got precisely what they paid for - a fraction of the collegiate experience devoid of all the time-honored rituals like keg parties...
...Eighteen years ago, mid-way through President Ronald Reagan's first term, Feldstein left the ivory tower for to serve as the chair of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors...
...bizarre play that turned out to be just the start of a wild contest. Rose connected with Farley along the right sideline for 29 yards to the Cornell 20, when Big Red cornerback Jimmy Vattes punched the ball out of Farley's hands. The loose ball rolled eighteen yards forward before fellow Crimson wide-out Sam Taylor fell on the ball at the Cornell 2-yard line. Two plays later, Rose ran into the end zone to put the Crimson...
...into October, heading for November, with a sense that a terrible mistake has been made. Thank God we have peace and a good economy. Would we want either of these men, Gore or Bush, to be in charge if the nation were in danger? It happens. Think of the eighteen-fifties, when the United States was drifting toward civil war, and the political system came up with Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, mediocrities of the kind we are asked to choose between...