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...Kagan won students’ approval by providing free coffee, hot chocolate, and bagels, installing an ice skating rink, and renovating the student center. These small changes paid huge dividends, humanizing a school that had grown synonymous with impersonal treatment and apathy towards student life, students said...
...Iowa, we remain far from the global recession's hot spots (knock on wood): Wall Street and Detroit, AIG and WaMu, Chrysler and Bernie Madoff. But the state has its problems, from layoffs by major employers to falling grain prices, bankrupt ethanol plants and state budget woes. And some of those recent scary national headlines - "U.S. Loses 533,000 Jobs in Biggest Drop Since 1974," "Recession Propels Skid in Housing Sales, Prices," "Retail Sales Are Weakest in 35 Years," "In Need of Cash, More Companies Cut 401(k) Match" - are translating into tangible, tell-tale signs on the street where...
...from the Air Force's presidential fleet. (He was choked up leaving his old house!) He moved into a hotel with his family. (The Hay-Adams, where Mark Twain drank!) His daughters were shuttled off to a new school. (Tuition is almost $30,000 a year - but the hot lunches are free...
...Crimson, it was battling the University of Maine, and its opponent’s roar and bite were less lethal than real black bears, as Harvard (5-5) grabbed a 76-63 win at Alfond Arena. Immune from the brutal storm raging in the cold outside, the Crimson got hot in the second half, making 13-of-22 shots after the break, including 6-of-11 from long range, while stepping up the defensive pressure to escape the Black Bears’ (5-6) home territory unmauled. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for Harvard...
...advantage on the game. Rice did not even need excellent shooting from the line to mount its comeback—it only made 62 percent of its free-throw shots for the game—as the pure advantage in quantity proved to be enough to squeak by the hot-shooting Harvard team. Harvard freshman forward Peter Boehm—starting his second game in a row as classmate Keith Wright sat out due to an illness—led the long-distance charge, making 7-of-9 three-point attempts on his way to 23 points, a game high...