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...economic reality. Of course, you don't have to go far to see the face of America's current economic troubles: cross the state line into Ohio, which has a far greater exposure to the American auto industry, and the pain is palpable in industrial shops in Finley and Toledo. They don't have to be told that we're heading for a slowdown; they're already in one. But if Pittsburgh is any indication, there is virtue to going through hard times. The hard part is that it might take a decade to realize...
...Sheehan said he particularly enjoyed courses with engaging lectures, like Humanites 103: “The Great Age of Athens, ” co-taught by his House master in Eliot, classics professor John H. Finley...
...land is lunar-like now," says Ian Brunt, who's on 120 hectares near the New South Wales town of Finley and has been rice farming for 32 years. "The tractor's throwing up clouds of dust." Les Gordon recalls the disenchantment among farmers in 1982 when state authorities limited farmers to 60% of their normal water allowance. Now, "I would kill for a 60% allocation," says Gordon, who still farms with his father, Henry. "Dad planted his first rice crop in 1949. No one around here has seen conditions like this before...
...This year, the richest woman in Britain joins an exclusive club, alongside luminaries like Prof. John Huston Finley, the Harvard classicist who delivered the 1982 speech, and publisher Louis B. Martin, the 1970 speaker. Neither has a Wikipedia entry dedicated to him, but at least they weren’t children’s book authors...
...game is slowly getting away from Harvard here. Another easy basket - this time a pull-up jumper by Zach Finley - stretches the lead out to seven. Princeton 19, Harvard...