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...rather late date of Sept. 4, 2007, Fred Thomspon sat on Jay Leno's couch and declared that he was running for President, adding, "I don't think people are going to say, 'That guy would make a very good President, but he just didn't get in soon enough.'" Thompson was right. It wasn't the lateness of his entry - fully six months after most of his rivals - that killed his campaign. It was the candidate's own perceived apathy...
...blue-ribbon commission of experts who can get to the bottom of this mystery, we are all left with just speculation, conflicting theories, and self-serving claims for credit by interested parties, including police departments and elected officials," said Andrew Karmen, a criminal expert at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and the author of the recently reissued book, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s. "And if we don't know why crime fell so sharply throughout the country in the 1990s, and in certain big cities right...
Another species of bird, the scrub jay, has challenged our supposedly unique gift of foresight. Scrub jays like to store food, and they remember thousands of different hiding places. Studies have shown that they make a special point of tucking food away when they expect they'll need it the next day. What makes the time-traveling and toolmaking of birds all the more impressive is that, unlike apes and monkeys, they don't share a close evolutionary history with us. They evolved these supposedly human features on a line parallel to the one we traveled--essentially developing the skills...
...since the switch from paper to online forms in 2005—a move originally aimed at boosting student responses.“Since it has gone online, it has become less useful for the faculty because students give it less time,” said Jewish studies professor Jay M. Harris, who is also a senior adviser to Pilbeam.Music professor Thomas F. Kelly said he wonders whether the low response rates mean that evaluations simply reflect the views of strongly opinionated students, making it difficult to gauge the overall feeling of the class.Kelly, chair of the Committee on Pedagogical...
...better team—the Crimson’s 40 shots were a season high and 16 more than St. Lawrence managed—it was mistakes familiar to the Harvard players and coaching staff that prevented them from picking up the win. —Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...