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...started this season by taking an all-senior boat to Oklahoma City to best Washington State by seven seconds at the Head of the Oklahoma in the first race of the day. The Cougars were eighth in the point tally at last year’s NCAAs and finished fifth in the Grand Final, putting them directly on Radcliffe’s ’08-’09 hit list. “It’s only positive for us,” co-captain Anna Kendrick said. “It was a great opener...
...Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America” recycles the title of his earlier bestseller, “The World is Flat.” Unfortunately, the rest of the material also seems reused. Friedman’s fifth book attempts a rousing reveille to the Energy Climate Era, where global warming, world-wide middle class expansion, and population growth led to the titular characteristics: hot, flat, and crowded. The book tells a five-part story, à la Shakespeare, but it’s clear that the author neglected...
...boat finished in a time of 6:05.34 to the Netherlands’ 6:07.22.2004 grads and brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss reached the final of the men’s pair for the US, placing sixth overall, after a tense semi-final in which they moved up from fifth to second position in the last 500, fully earning their spot in the last race with a time of 6:36.65.“In the semi-finals we started well. We still hadn’t dropped that much by 1600,” Tyler said...
Government spending at all levels, though fairly stable even as the Depression set in, constituted only about 15% of GDP in the 1920s. Less than one-fifth of that was federal expenditures. "If the Federal Government should go out of existence, the common run of people would not detect the difference in the affairs of their daily life for a considerable length of time," said famously taciturn President Calvin Coolidge in one of his more long-winded (and accurate) assessments of the national scene. The Federal Government, in other words, was a kind of 90-lb. weakling in the fight...
We’re number one—again. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings released last week placed Harvard in the number one spot this year, for the fifth year in a row. Yale finished second, and the University of Cambridge came in third. Though there were some significant changes in the positions of schools in the rankings this year, most U.S. universities stayed pat. Brown, Penn, and Cornell moved up in the rankings while Columbia, Princeton, and Dartmouth moved down. The Hanover, N.H. college lagged behind its peers—the only Ivy to finish...