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Predicted to make a strong showing this season, the Big Red defense—which led the league in rushing defense last season—has fallen short of those expectations. Now 1-2 after starting off the season with a 24-7 win against Bucknell, Cornell will have to turn things around tomorrow against the Crimson (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) if it is to live up to its reputation as a dark horse pick to win the title...
...Silicon Valley, comeback stories comes in three sizes: large, extra-large and epic. So when Sun Microsystems and Google announced this week an agreement to distribute software together, some observers quickly pumped up the familiar Microsoft versus [insert latest tech threat here] story. Sun?s CEO is the fallen tech star Scott McNealy, who seems to be obsessed with vanquishing Microsoft. Google, the game-changing upstart, is now led by a battle-worn veteran, Eric Schmidt, who has been beaten up a couple times by Microsoft himself, but lived to fight another...
...norms, and the arguments outlined above, concluding that if there were a perfect age for marriage, a formula for success, a love potion #9, wouldn’t we all be taking it? Wouldn’t that be too easy? Wouldn’t the divorce rate have fallen this past decade...
...past three decades, with few exceptions, the number of students voting and engaged in the political process has continuously fallen. There have been many reasons given for this decline. Young people feel that government is too bureaucratic and not responsive; they don’t believe politicians speak to their generation; they dislike the negativity and divisiveness that is pervasive in so much of modern political discourse. As Ganesh N. Sitaraman ’04 and Previn Warren ’04 described in their book, “Invisible Citizens,” “Our generation...
...reelection in 2002. Red-green, as the colorful union of Socialists and Greens was known, scored its share of successes with the public, including its opposition to George W. Bushs 2003 entry into Iraq. However, the economy has faltered throughout the entire Schrder period, and the chancellors popularity has fallen to new lows, with significant SPD losses in 2004 and 2005 regional elections. His controversial 2003 program for labor and welfare reform met with widespread criticism. This past May, Schrder declared himself incapable of governing and requested an early election. Soon the summer months morphed into a hasty electoral campaign...