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...Harvard-Princeton rivalry has seen its fair share of end-game drama over the past three years at Lavietes Pavilion. In 2006, the Tigers came back from a 59-53 deficit over the final 1:17 of play to win on a last second jumper, 60-59. Last year, the Crimson used a 20-8 run in the last seven minutes to force overtime and win. Sufficed to say, the Harvard faithful have seen some of the team’s greatest highs and lowest lows in its battles against the Tigers. After a devastating 77-71 loss Saturday night...
...resulting in misleading ratings. Some of the questions are redundant or not applicable for many courses and could be easily omitted on a course-by-course basis, but often are not. The rating rubric itself—in which a score of 2, the second-lowest grade, is labeled "Fair"—is far too superlative and causes confusion. The ratings would also be more useful if they were based in a more broad and precise scoring system, from 1 to 10, for example. This would be likely to provide a more honest picture of a course...
...rooms, with a family pedigree that includes two uncles who separately won Nobels for economic science. "All of us are deeply resentful," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the chief economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign, says with a laugh. "In terms of just genetic ability to do this - not fair...
Meanwhile, though, families--middle-class families, not just rich ones--are passing hundreds of thousands of dollars on to the next generation in their wills. Fair enough, if they worked for the money and saved it. In fact, wonderful. But much of this generosity, it turns out, is made possible by Social Security and Medicare. How much? Hard to say. What is easier to say with certainty is that most people today and in the future will get more back from these entitlement programs in retirement than they put in during their working lives...
...first piece of real legislation Barack Obama signed as the 44th President of the United States helps ensure that workers discriminated on the basis of gender have a fair chance to sue their employers. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is named after a woman who was paid less than her male co-workers at an Alabama tire factory. Ledbetter did not set out to be an activist; she did not even involve herself in politics much. But after the Supreme Court ruled against her, she decided it was time to start. (See pictures of Barack Obama's Inauguration...