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...without any set limits.”Records continued to fall on Saturday, highlighted by Pickard’s 400-yard individual medley swim. The sophomore cut 11 seconds off of her morning preliminary time to win the B final in 4:14.06. The time was nearly five seconds faster than the previous record. Mills notched her second record by taking first in the C final of the 100-yard butterfly, finishing in 55.04.“It was absolutely amazing to watch her,” Pickard said. “It’s great to know that...
...final trials, proved to be a bit of a wake-up call for the Crimson swimmers. Performing significantly worse than usual in its early rounds, the team’s potential Achilles’ heel was revealed. “One area we definitely need to improve is swimming faster in the morning,” senior Bill Jones said. “We had a big difference between our morning preliminary swims and then our finals.” Even with this weakness, the Harvard men managed to return to Cambridge with significant results, both on the team...
...song emphasizes the more serious side and the social commentary of the show.” Morris and Miller are also hoping to bring back the classic Gilbert and Sullivan tradition of encores, or repeat performances of the most popular or exciting songs that get progressively faster and more difficult. “For a lot of reasons they’ve fallen out of favor recently, but it’s one of the areas where we’re trying something different,” Morris says.“Encores are a great opportunity to play with...
...founded by Tim Goldsworthy and LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy. Murphy’s been pushing conversion to the disco ideals for almost a decade now, to growing success, along with groups like London’s Hot Chip and Melbourne’s Cut Copy. Their music is faster, deeper, and more likely to rattle you than anything my mother might have heard as Studio 54 was closing. Just as disco was never really the same as Disco, this new wave should not be considered a Disco revival. Rather, it is a new willingness to embrace duality and nuance...
...more of a "monster under our bed," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Beijing University, something that people spend too much time worrying about. Economists like Pettis believe - and the data to date suggest - that both consumption and private investment in the U.S. are plunging at a faster rate than government spending is rising. And given that consumers have shut their wallets, the U.S. savings rate is almost certainly headed up as this recession deepens. The result, as former Treasury official Brad Sester points out, is that the overall U.S. demand for capital is diminishing - despite the government...