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Senior ERIC KLAUSSEN proved last weekend that his GS is no BS. Klaussen captured sixth place overall in the Giant Slalom competition at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Although Klaussen has not yet technically qualified for nationals, his Dartmouth performance should assure him a qualifying slot. Hailing from Squaw Valley, California, Klaussen comments that east coast mountains are "a lot smaller and a lot colder"...The ski team as a whole finished seventh out of ten...not bad since the competition included last year's national champion. University of Vermont...
...like what it sees in its capital city these days, it will eventually change things. As the core of the democracy, Washington will always display the most extreme consequences of popular sovereignty. The citizens who longed for an end to the spoils system now look at some deadheaded, immovable GS-12 and shriek, "But we didn't mean to end up with you!" Of course not. But they did mean someone as different as possible from some political boss's dopey nephew, and up showed the GS-12. It will take more reforming to produce the perfect civil...
...fraction of a second or risk a crash. In one turn, dubbed "Shady," the sleds are whipped through a 150° turn that drops 36 ft. The resulting slingshot effect pushes the sleds up to 75 m.p.h. and subjects their crews to 4.5-G stresses (astronauts experience 5 Gs at blast-off). According to one driver, crewmen have blacked out on the Lake Placid course...
...this year than in the past. The Crimson are currently 1-2, and uncharacteristically bad start which is due to the uncharacteristically high number of freshmen on the squad. It has taken the seven yardlings a couple of games (7-2 loss at Dartmouth, 6-5 overtime 1 gs at RPI) to get their ECAC acts together...
Dale Peterson, a spokesman for the CIA, said yesterday the CIA has nominated two members with GS 18 rank--"about the highest rank there is below appointed ones" for participation in the program. He said the Kennedy School contacted the CIA late last year to ask them their views on the program, but he said the CIA had no part in running the program...