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...hills. A year ago, subprime had not entered the lexicon of the nightly news, and most Americans probably thought that "credit crunch" was a breakfast cereal. We all know better now. In the wake of the report that December's U.S. unemployment rate had jumped to 5%, the highest level in two years, the Bush Administration and Congress, Republicans and Democrats, started falling over themselves trying to find a politically acceptable stimulus package. With a recession in the American economy looking to be imminent, the tireless locomotive of the global economy seems finally to have run out of puff...
...full, fulsome flower. For one night, the TV viewer gets up-front gawking privileges, a chance to see George and Johnny and Julia and Jodie act, not like actors, but like movie stars - looking great, cracking wise, radiating celestial glamour. That's why the Golden Globes is the third-highest-rated of these annual bashes, after the Oscars and the Grammys...
...high altitude in the Himalayas. Even though I had pretty good resistance to cold in my feet, that first trip I definitely had cold feet. But we still made a lot of new summits and we really did extremely well. We weren't using oxygen that trip. The highest mountain we climbed was just over 22,000 feet...
...fact remains that any consideration for these other roles and their sensitivity is vastly outweighed by the need for public oversight over HUPD’s potent police powers. Though The Crimson’s 2003 lawsuit was ultimately defeated in the Commonwealth’s highest court, the door was left open for the Legislature to modify state law so that all campus police departments in Massachusetts would have to comply with existing freedom of information standards. Thus far, the Legislature has largely remained stalemated on this issue, which is disappointing. If the Commonwealth’s legislators...
Bowman's contemporaries and rivals in the late 1980s and early 1990s were the heavyweights of the figure skating world: Olympic medalist Paul Wylie, world champion Todd Eldredge, and national medalist Mark Mitchell. Mitchell, who was always surprised by Bowman's ability to compete at the highest level despite his haphazard training schedule, says "the locker room was always very entertaining" when Bowman was around. One of Bowman's favorite stories, with which he regaled teammates over and over again, highlighted his complicated relationship with Carroll. A day after sitting down with Carroll to be lectured on the importance...