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...Hong Kong International Literary Festival?that sure sounds like an oxymoron. Isn't Hong Kong the place where residents are interested exclusively in the Hang Seng Index, Rolex watches and, um, Rolex watches? Where the closest thing to a hot comic novel is Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's latest plan to stabilize the real estate market...
...that's not all bad, insist White House officials. Sure, the likelihood of war and the threat of terrorism have squeezed the economy. War jitters contributed to the nine-year low registered last week in the key consumer-confidence index--and to the all-time lows in the polls for Bush's economic performance. But the war may also be the White House's way out of the problem. Bush advisers say the economy will surge after the war, as businesses start investing and consumers start spending. And victory in war can jump-start a President's stalled poll numbers...
...added a criteria for a “good win” over the summer, news that only became public last week. A “good win” is defined as a non-conference victory against a team finishing in the Top 15 of the ratings percentage index...
...good news for Harvard is that the computers the selection committee uses don’t care how badly the Crimson lost to Rutgers, Vanderbilt, Minnesota and BC. They use the ratings percentage index (RPI)—a weighted average of a team’s record, its opponents’ records and its opponents’ opponents’ records. Wins and losses are all that count...
Again, it is not that Libeskind’s design is not masterful. He has fulfilled his commitment to optimism. The hope with which his design reaches upwards, sitting like the curled hand of God around the footprint of the two towers, its index finger stretching towards the sky—taller, indeed, than any building in the world, save a few telecommunication towers—is important, even necessary in what is to be our revisioning of Manhattan. It is as much an immigrant’s vision of the endless possibility that marks our most American of American...