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...Jones, who swam in the non-scoring second heat of the event, finished with a time of 50.26, passing Brown’s first-place winner, Dan Ricketts, who won the first heat in 50.30. “I was pleased with the guys’ energy and their enthusiasm,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said of his team’s performance. The Crimson will look to use this energy and build on its success as it prepares to meet its toughest competition of the season, the Princeton Tigers, on Saturday at the annual HYP meet...
...inspired both the collective gasp of the audience and the persistent guffawing of solitary man. As the show deserved, though, the audience response was overwhelmingly positive, if somewhat difficult to verbalize. I found the reaction of the woman sitting in front of me to be appropriately vague in its enthusiasm: “That was...awesome...
...obligation that comes when assuming command in the middle of two wars (a nonscientific poll before the election by the independent Army Times newspaper showed GOP nominee John McCain getting three military votes for every one for Obama). But it's also an acknowledgment that while the military's enthusiasm for a new President won't win either wars or votes, a rocky relationship between the President and the military forces under his command can undermine his presidency...
...Many factors are dampening investors' enthusiasm, including recession-smitten corporate profits and the uncertain prospects for economic recovery. "If you believe that corporate profits have no chance to rise in the next two to three years, then you could argue that stock prices are still too expensive," says Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo. "More importantly, you could argue that it's too risky to hold the stocks." Kanno says people have lost a sense of what's fair value for financial assets, including stocks and other risky assets; they prefer time deposits, risk-free investments...
There is no recent analogue to the madness - er, hopefulness - that has seized Obama's fans. Some journalists have been comparing him with F.D.R. and even Lincoln. To find a similar episode of enthusiasm for an incoming President, you might have to go back to 1829. The outgoing President, John Quincy Adams, was the son of another President. He had won office in a way his opponents considered corrupt: the 1824 election had been thrown to the House of Representatives, which picked him. The new President, Andrew Jackson, was his era's version of change. Unlike his predecessors...