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...Club for UC President! As lame as the alcohol restrictions were, the majority of first-time boozehounds were footloose and ambulance-free at this year’s Harvard-Yale “tailgate.” Only one poor schmuck ended up in the hospital, multiplying his lameness factor by a factor of 25 (the number of kids who went to the hospital two years ago). Serious troublemakers stuck to the action at the alumnae tailgates. One Owl boy was spotted somersaulting into porta-potties—one flew open, revealing a bemused middle-aged man. For the first...
...Another factor may be the emergence of freshman netminder Christina Kessler, who shut out Princeton this past weekend...
...accomplished. "Today, I'm a responsible statesman, and I do all I can to serve my constituency and my country. Tomorrow, I'll have to become a dissident to do the same." He had long hoped that other countries would support Russia's fading democracy, but laments: "The only factor that can influence this regime is outside pressure. Instead, the West encourages Putin...
Which risks get excessive attention and which get overlooked depends on a hierarchy of factors. Perhaps the most important is dread. For most creatures, all death is created pretty much equal. Whether you're eaten by a lion or drowned in a river, your time on the savanna is over. That's not the way humans see things. The more pain or suffering something causes, the more we tend to fear it; the cleaner or at least quicker the death, the less it troubles us. "We dread anything that poses a greater risk for cancer more than the things that...
...apply for the schools they want their child to attend--many have magnet programs that make it worth going that extra mile--and 92% of families wind up with their first or second choice. Even if some don't get what they ask for, race is never the sole factor in how assignments are made. "We look at choices first, we look at siblings, we look at capacity," says Pat Todd, the district's student-assignment director. "Race is way down the list...