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...mall comprises not just a still-to-be-completed five-star hotel, a branch of London's Harvey Nichols and every designer boutique you can think of but also its own ski slope. Alanoud has graciously invited me to go along with her and her friend while they shop, grab a coffee and ski. Skiing, of course, is not normally part of their daily ritual, but in Dubai you have to do things when they are new. And new is a relative term in a place where there's always a bigger mall being built, boasting even more outrageous tenants...
...pool.”Harvard finished with a second-place finish in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a team of senior Mark Knepley, Jones, Quinn, and freshman David Guernsey. The Crimson went into the third day of competition trailing the Tigers, 882-841.5, with a chance to grab the title from Princeton. Harvard could not overcome the Tiger’s depth, however, as Princeton totaled five finalists in the 200 butterfly. Lynch notched his second win of the meet in Saturday’s first race, the 1650-yard freestyle. The freshman qualified for the NCAA...
...knowing it in the first 10 points.” The second frame was more of the same—Harvard was unable to string enough plays together to take a lead at the start. As the game progressed and the Crimson got into a rhythm, it managed to grab several two-point leads throughout the game. But it was never able to pull away—Springfield clawed back point by point to tie the game at 24, and from that point, never looked back. “From 25 [points] on, we need to pick up our play...
...bombastic Gatorade commercial. The band footage is unmemorable, and the athlete sections, while fun to look at, aren’t exactly groundbreaking. It’s a bit dreamlike, but it doesn’t have that ecstatic, unhinged feeling that pervades the best strange videos. It might grab your attention for a moment, and it might even make you thirsty for a sports drink, but the video certainly won’t stick with...
...premise that ambition is the "Need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it" confuses ambition with greed and cut-throat competitiveness. Nature may be a zero-sum game, but civilization is not. Ambitious people don't just grab a bigger piece of the pie; they also make the pie bigger so that there's more to go around. Ambitious people brought us the printing press, personal computer, medical advances and agricultural efficiencies undreamed of 100 years ago. Mary Jacobs Dallas...