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There is one final grand gesture open to George W. Bush to redeem his presidency - sell Alaska back to the Russians. Immediately. Oliver McQuillan, DUBLIN...
...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, and it was just...
...Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth,” Stoll beseeches his readers to be more economical with their toilet paper use—or something to that effect. Costco, he tells us in the book’s introduction, is a Grand Canyon of superabundance. According to Stoll, it is a tribute to our society’s devotion to the pursuit of economic expansion and the lack of moderation that characterizes that pursuit. His book traces the modern veneration of economic growth back to its intellectual and social origins, which he identifies...
...season, going undefeated in its dual racing against other freshman boats and claiming another gold at Sprints. Three of its members—Christian Wood, Ryan Bucke, and Conner Griffith—joined current senior Matt Webb to form a four, which took first place in the Grand Final of the open fours at IRAs.“Winning Eastern Sprints was a really great experience,” Bucke said. “But definitely winning IRAs, winning the national championships, was [my favorite part of the season].”He added that the comaraderie...
...national stage—the heavyweights have 25 Eastern Sprints titles, the lightweights 24.But when the Harvard crews take to the water this year, they will be looking for redemption after a 2008 season that lacked their usual displays of dominance. The heavyweight varsity eight failed to make the Grand Final of the Sprints for the first time in 44 years. Likewise, the lightweights also fell short—their varsity crew was conspicuously absent from the Grand Final for the first time in over six decades.For the heavyweights, the Sprints result differed markedly from their performance during the rest...