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...What did Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton duel over? KGB never responded to this question. Epic failure...
Concluding their final dual meet before the epic Harvard-Yale-Princeton matchup this coming weekend, the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team (7-0, 5-0 Ivy) celebrated its 169-119 win over Brown (1-4, 1-3) last Saturday in unusual fashion. With Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” resonating through the speakers, freshman swimmer Matthew McLean was carried around Blodgett Pool on a stretcher for a post-meet victory lap. However, the defeat of the Bears was significant in more ways than the simple maintenance of a perfect record...
Emanuel's sea trials have not been entirely smooth. One less than magnanimous gesture that seemed to have Emanuel's fingerprints all over it: former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean--who waged an epic battle with Emanuel over political strategy during the 2006 election cycle--was not invited to the public announcement in early January of his successor, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine. "I thought it was appalling," a Dean ally says of the snub...
...begins at the culmination of fall classes and ends the first week of February, with just a few exams to interrupt my leisure. By allotting time for both studying and recreation, I can spend my never-ending reading period playing Halo until 5 a.m. on a weeknight and organizing epic games of snow football under dimly lit street lamps. Then I can look forward to an intersession of sledding down beautiful man-made jumps in Vermont...
...Thursday's decision has thrust Sipson into the frontline of the epic fight between economic development and environmental concerns, which is intensifying as the global economy stutters. Across the world, politicians are asking themselves how best to balance their green agendas against their struggles to stimulate growth. Such questions are anything but abstract for Sipson's elderly residents, many of whom have spent their entire lives in the village. "I got married in the local church. My children were born here. Our family home is here," says Linda McCutcheon, a 63-year old pensioner who has lived in the village...