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...rocky start this season, dropping their first nine contests. Recently, however, they have won five of seven, including three straight. This weekend is also significant as it is the last chance for Julie Chu to make her case for the Patty Kazmaier Award, for which she is a finalist. The Kazmaier Award is given to the woman who “displays the highest standards of personal and team excellence during the season.” Chu, whose unselfish play is reflected in her remarkable goals to assist ratio (16 goals to 42 assists) leads the nation in points...
...think Drew will be a simply superb president,” Elena Kagan, the dean of Harvard Law School and a finalist in the presidential search, wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...seeking candidates with academic administrative experience—a prerequisite according to professors and administrators alike—and then attempting to lure those leaders away from their current institutions. But no one among the select group of Ivy presidents and their peers turned out to be a finalist for the Harvard position. The committee members ignored public denials of all candidates, according to individuals familiar with the search. But there were three statements that the committee probably had trouble ignoring—those of the outside candidates that are said to have been considered most seriously. Thomas R. Cech...
...whose columns skewered the high and mighty; after a seven-year fight with breast cancer; in Austin, Texas. Ivins, who famously referred to George W. Bush as "Shrub," could write with heartfelt earnestness yet just as naturally refer to height-challenged politicians as "runts with attitudes." The three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in a recent column on Bush's troop surge, offered what could serve as her epitaph: "Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous...
...victory. Then again, it's easy to be biased toward a player who presents as charming, funny, candid, self-deprecating, philosophical and smart. Safin's compatriot, Nikolay Davydenko, who's risen to world No. 3 despite a body that appears more suited to chess, has been a quarter-finalist in Melbourne the previous two years and could sneak into the semis this time before many fans can say his name right. James Blake (U.S.), Tommy Robredo (Spain), Tommy Haas (Germany), David Nalbandian (Argentina) and Baghdatis are others to keep...