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...idea of the gap between a winner and an also-ran in motor racing's toughest series, consider the contrasting fortunes of two drivers in the Nov. 2 Brazilian Grand Prix, the final race of the year. In just his second season in Formula One, 23-year-old Briton Lewis Hamilton became its youngest ever world champion, sensationally grabbing fifth place on the last corner of the Interlagos track in São Paulo to claim motor sport's premier prize by a single point from hometown hero and Ferrari star Felipe Massa. Italian Giancarlo Fisichella was less fortunate. Fisichella...
...further than last weekend, when Sunday Night Football played host to the premiere of the “Gears of War 2” trailer. The trailer, entitled “Last Day,” features cinematic shots of thoughtful computer-rendered soldiers as they cast their final glances at an idyllic landscape before embarking on a subterranean mission against an unseen alien foe. Much like the first “Gears of War” commercial, which was set to Gary Jules’s haunting cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World...
...Harvard to gain at least a piece of the Ivy title, it will have to win its last three games while Brown loses one. To put this in perspective and stick with the election analogy, Brown’s final slate of Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia is like if the presidency had come down to Ohio, Massachusetts, and New York for Obama...
...President. John F. Kennedy, for example, didn't even have his predecessor's encouragement: when he took over the reins from Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower failed to take action on several issues toward the end of his presidency that would have made Kennedy's transition easier. Eisenhower's final term and subsequent exit from office have left a legacy that recalls him as one of the more indecisive presidents in history...
...subjects, lower dropout rates and free up millions of education dollars. Students may take the exams - which are modeled on existing AP or International Baccalaureate tests - as many times as they need to pass. Or those who want to go to a prestigious university may stay and finish the final two years, taking a second, more difficult set of exams senior year. "We want students who are ready to be able to move on to their higher education," says Lyonel Tracy, New Hampshire's Commissioner for Education. "And then we can focus even more attention on those kids who need...